Gillian wearing born
Gillian wearing art.
Gillian wearing born
Gillian Wearing
British artist
Gillian WearingCBE, RA (born 10 December 1963) is an English conceptual artist, one of the Young British Artists, and winner of the 1997 Turner Prize.
In 2007 Wearing was elected as lifetime member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London.[1] Her statue of the suffragist Millicent Fawcett, popularly known as "Hanging out the washing", stands in London's Parliament Square.[2]
From 5 November 2021 to 4 April 2022, the Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum in New York City showed Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks, the first retrospective of Wearing's work in North America.[3][4]
Early life
Wearing was born in 1963 in Birmingham, England.[5] She attended Dartmouth High School in Great Barr, Birmingham.
She moved to Chelsea, London to study art at the Chelsea School of Art and squatted in Oval Mansions.[6] In 1987 she attained a bachelor of technology degree in art and design and in 1990 she attaine