1. Gillian Wearing CBE, RA was born on 10 December 1963 and is an English conceptual artist, one of the Young British Artists, and winner of the 1997 Turner Prize.
23 Facts About Gillian Wearing
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In 2007 Wearing was elected as lifetime member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
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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.
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Gillian Wearing attended Dartmouth High School in Great Barr, Birmingham.
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Gillian Wearing moved to Chelsea, London to study art at the Chelsea School of Art and squatted in Oval Mansions.
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Gillian Wearing is known for her method of documentation of everyday life through photography and video, concerning individual identity within the private and the public spaces, where Gillian Wearing blurs the line between reality and fiction.
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Gillian Wearing's work reveals that the camera does not take a neutral stance towards its object, but is rather a powerful mass-media organ that breaks down the divide between public and private.
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Gillian Wearing sees that Anthropology "attempts to compress human subjectivity into scientific objectivity".
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Gillian Wearing stated that "When they returned with something they had written, it challenged [her] own perception of them".
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In Homage to the woman with the bandaged face who I saw yesterday down Walworth Road, Gillian Wearing covers her head with white bandages and walks around in public.
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Gillian Wearing initially wanted to ask for permission to film the woman, although she decided to cover her own face with bandages and reenact what she had seen instead.
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Gillian Wearing's walk was documented discreetly from behind and there was a hidden camera installed inside of the mask, capturing onlookers' horrid reactions.
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Gillian Wearing created masks out of silicone of her mother, her father, her sister, her uncle, and a mask of herself with help from experts that were trained at Madam Tussauds in London.
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Gillian Wearing used a fixed camera and the length of the pose was long in duration, which resulted in an awkward personal moment.
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In Krystof Doris' text "Masks, Identity, and Performativity" he explains that the power relation between the viewer and the viewed are reversed due to the disciplining scenario that Gillian Wearing placed upon the group of police officers.
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In 1994, Gillian Wearing created the provocative film "Dancing in Peckham", where she recorded herself dancing in a busy South London shopping centre capturing the reactions of passers-by to explore the gap between public and private experience.
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In 1997, Gillian Wearing won the Turner Prize and exhibited videos such as 60 minutes silence which is a video of 26 uniformed police officers, but at first appears to be a photograph.
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Gillian Wearing follows these teenagers demonstrating how alcohol contributes to their loss of inhibitions, insecurities, and control.
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Gillian Wearing's 2010 show People at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery included work ranging from video, to photographic portraiture, to installation and sculpture.
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Gillian Wearing released her first feature film in this year: Self Made.
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Gillian Wearing was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2011 Birthday Honours for services to art.
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In 2013, Gillian Wearing showed her exhibit People: Selected Parkett Artists' Editions from 1984 to 2013 Parkett Space, Zurich, Switzerland.
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From November 5,2021 to April 4,2022, the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum in New York City was showing Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks, the first retrospective of Wearing's work in North America.