Rachel Whiteread

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Rachel Whiteread (born 1963) is a Turner Prize-winning artist, best known for her sculptures, which typically take the form of casts. She is one of the so-called Young British Artists, and exhibited at the Royal Academy's Sensation exhibition in 1997. She is probably best known for House, a large concrete cast of the inside of a Victorian house, and for her resin sculpture for the empty plinth in London's Trafalgar Square.

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I make all this stuff in the studio, but I also work on these white elephants - like House or Untitled Monument - things that are incredibly ambitious, take an awful long time to do, involve a lot of controversy, an awful lot of people, and don't make any money particularly, but it's just because I need to make them.
- The Guardian, "Some day my plinth will come" by Lynn Barber, 27 May 2001 [1]

We still have prostitutes standing on our corner, and people crapping round the back of buildings. The charms are still there.
- The Guardian|The Guardian, "Still breaking the mould" by Gordon Burn, 11 October 2005 [2]; on her home/studio in Bethnal Green

I think the difference between me and some of the other YBAs [Young British Artists] was that I was ambitious for the work, and not ambitious for myself.
- The Guardian, ibid.

I don't want to make plop art — sculpture that just gets plopped down in places. I wouldn't want to litter every corner of the world with my sculpture.
- The Guardian, "Boxing clever" by Lynn Barber, 16 October 2005 [3]

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