The Garden

Location

Country: Austria
City: Vienna
Place: British Embassy

Born in Birmingham in 1963, Gillian Wearing studied at Chelsea School of Art and Design before attending Goldsmiths College where she was associated with the ‘Young British Artists’ or ‘YBA’ generation. Since then, Wearing has gained international recognition, winning the Turner Prize in 1997. A major retrospective at the Whitechapel Gallery in 2012 later toured to Düsseldorf and Munich in 2013. In 2017, the National Portrait Gallery held the exhibition ‘Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun: Behind the Mask’ that explored shared issues of identity and gender. Wearing’s sculpture of Millicent Fawcett was unveiled in Parliament Square, London, in 2018 to mark the centenary of the Representation of the People Act of 1918.

Places

Subjects

conceptual art, woman, t-shirt, plant pot, garden, brick wall

Materials & Techniques

screenprint

Artist

Gillian Wearing (1963 - )

Title

The Garden

Portfolio Title

Screen

Edition

32/75

Date

1997

Medium

Screenprint

Dimensions

height: 60.60 cm, width: 88.90 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from The Paragon Press, August 1997

Inscription

s verso

GAC number

17268/8