GILLIAN WEARING

Gillian Wearing uses photography and video to explore the intimacies a nd complexities of everyday life British artist Gillian Wearing, winner of the 1997 Turner Prize, uses photography and video to produce an honest portrait of the com plexities of contemporary life. Borrowing from popular culture, her work is both disturbing and confessional. In 1993 she began the acclaimed series 'Signs that say what you want them to say and not Signs that say what someone else wants them to say', in which ran dom passers-by are photographed holdin...[Read more]