Gillian Wearing
| Gillian Wearing | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1963 (age 53–54) Birmingham, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Goldsmiths |
| Known for | Conceptual art, installation art |
| Movement | Young British Artists |
| Awards | Turner Prize |
Gillian Wearing OBE RA (born 1963) is an English conceptual artist, one of the Young British Artists, and winner of the annual British fine arts award, the Turner Prize, in 1997. In 2007 Wearing was elected as lifetime member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
Wearing was born in Birmingham. She attended Dartmouth High School in Great Barr, Birmingham. She moved to Chelsea, London to study art at the Chelsea College of Art and squatted in Oval Mansions.
Gillian Wearing is known for her method of documentation of the everyday life through photography and video, concerning individual identity within the private and the public spaces, where Wearing blurs the line between reality and fiction. Through a method of representation where as John Slyce describes Wearing representation as "frame[ing] herself as she frames the other" Her photo and video works at first appear like any other journalistic methods of documentation that is seen in television and documentaries, but after further examination it becomes apparent that they do not conform to mass-media conventions. Wearing’s work reveals the fact that the camera does not take a neutral stance, but a powerful mass-media organ that breaks down the public and the private. In the early 1990s, Wearing started putting together photography exhibitions where she works with strangers. There is a reoccurring pattern in her work where she plays and mocks the idea of the artist as anthropologist and that her anthropological activities do not focus on discovering a foreign culture but instead Wearing challenges what we thought we already knew. Wearing sees that Anthropology ‘attempts to compress human subjectivity into scientific objectifity’ As John Slyce puts it: “Gillian Wearing does not suffer the indignity of speaking for others.”.” How Wearing approaches her subjects then is by inviting the individual to include their own articulation of thought into the picture within the space that she has provided, rather than an objective documentation. In an interview with Donna De Salvo, Wearing states:
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