Honor
Rachel Whiteread
Deep Time: Commissions for the Lake District Coast Shortlist
Rachel Whiteread has been shortlisted to design a landmark artwork for the West Cumbrian coastline in northwest England as part of the public art program Deep Time: Commissions for the Lake District Coast. Whiteread has proposed to make a facsimile copy of an abandoned corrugated building, creating an “eerie double presence” of an existing structure. The winner will be announced in the winter of 2022 following public exhibitions of the shortlisted proposals at the Beacon Museum in Whitehaven and the Windermere Jetty Museum.
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Rachel Whiteread, Drigg Hut, 2022 © Rachel Whiteread
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Rachel Whiteread
Robson Orr TenTen Award 2022
As recipient of this year’s Robson Orr TenTen Award, Rachel Whiteread has been commissioned to create a limited-edition print. Launched in 2018 by the Government Art Collection, with the support of philanthropists Sybil Robson Orr and Matthew Orr, this ten-year award program annually selects a British artist to create an original print work for the Collection to display in the United Kingdom and internationally. Fifteen prints of Whiteread’s Untitled (Bubble) (2022) will be exhibited in diplomatic buildings around the world, and a further eleven will be sold to raise funds to acquire works by emerging artists in the UK.
Rachel Whiteread, Untitled (Bubble), 2022 © Rachel Whiteread
In Conversation
Rachel Whiteread
Ann Gallagher
Wednesday, September 22, 2021, 1pm
Messe Basel
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As part of Art Basel’s Conversation series, Rachel Whiteread will participate in a Premiere Artists Talk with Ann Gallagher, former director of Tate’s collection of British art and editor of the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist’s sculpture, about key moments in her career and what drives her work today. The conversation will be introduced by Marc Spiegler, global director of Art Basel. The event is free to attend with fair admission. To watch the livestream event, visit Art Basel’s Facebook.
Rachel Whiteread
In Conversation
Tom Eccles and Kiki Smith on Rachel Whiteread
Tuesday, October 27, 2020, 2pm EDT
Join curator Tom Eccles and artist Kiki Smith as they discuss the work of Rachel Whiteread through the lens of their personal friendships with her. They talk about the way her works reveal the memory embedded in familiar everyday objects, her drawing practice, and their experience of public projects by Whiteread such as Water Tower, installed on a New York rooftop in 1998. Their conversation, recorded on the occasion of Artist Spotlight: Rachel Whiteread, will air online. To register to watch, complete this form.
Rachel Whiteread, Cabin, 2016, permanent installation, Governors Island, New York © Rachel Whiteread. Photo: Tim Schenck
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