Rachel Whiteread: Drawings

9mins, 2010
This film accompanies the Rachel Whiteread exhibition running at Tate Britain from 8 September 2010 until 16 January 2011.
Rachel Whiteread is renowned for her evocative large-scale sculptures, but drawing has always remained one of her core activities. This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to explore her works on paper, most of which have never been shown before in a public gallery.
These collages and drawings provide a fascinating and intimate insight into the creative process behind Whiteread's work. While her sculptures are often large-scale and involve a team of fabricators, these paper works provide a more personal, mobile counterpoint. Nevertheless, they also share many of the themes familiar from her public commissions: texture and surface; void and presence; and the subtle observation of human traces in everyday life.
© Tate Media 2010
Directed by James Price
Filmed & Edited by Tim Cowie and James Price
Camera Assistant Max Dade
Editing Assistants Stephanie Macindoe, Sinan Gultutan, & Sammi Davies
Sound Design by Gurnot Fuhrmann
Produced by Kate Vogel
Thanks to Hazel Willis and Gagosian Gallery

[@davidmayhew4818]

Charming woman. Love the way she thinks!

[@jon780249]

Always admired her work.

[@PJStrawberry]

Love her work so much!

[@MarieHarnett]

Wonderful!

[@robertpepper5256]

Being unafraid to make connections between things truly experienced and in unique ways is admirable.

[@shushust]

Thousand thanks! I admire her work and the personality so much.

[@knownaigm]

The only thing worse than seeing a person's work and finding it mind-numbingly vapid is then watching an interview with the artist and realizing it is just as vapid as it seemed.

[@rob16248]

Vapid and vacuous.

[@toesinbakedclay1228]

lovely

[@grienecheez]

I just can't choose between materials either, so i am very eclectic about it. Every thing goes, as long as the sound and energy remain the intentional vibe

[@readthetype]

She should definitely change her name to “Rachel Whitebread.” Or at the very least have an exhibition with that title. How great would this look on a gallery invite?? Rachel Whiteread: Rachel Whitebread

[@ralph34570]

Those drawings and the presentation of them; I have seen so much of this. Nothing more than a cliché of what things should look like if you are going to make it in the art world. In the end it has been reduced to nothing more than wallpaper; however it is expensive wallpaper!

[@Audiofreund2]

love the lasercut

[@vinayseth1114]

Why was the 'House' sculpture met with a strong reaction, as she mentioned? And it was just a sculpture, right, and not an architectural piece?

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[@UnbelievablyGauche]

An "anatomical brain" you say