Rachel Whiteread

Who is Rachel Whiteread?

Rachel Whiteread, CBE is an English artist who primarily produces sculptures, which typically take the form of casts. She won the annual Turner Prize in 1993 – the first woman to win the prize.

Whiteread is one of the Young British Artists, and exhibited at the Royal Academy's Sensation exhibition in 1997. Among her most renowned works are House, a large concrete cast of the inside of an entire Victorian house, the holocaust memorial sculpture in Jüdenplatz Vienna and for her resin sculpture for the empty plinth in London's Trafalgar Square.