Tag: Gillian Wearing

  • London’s Statues of Women – book review

    This exhaustive yet compact guide to London’s statues of women presents a motley crew, not just of queens and heroines, but of ‘normal’ women of all shapes and forms

  • Uncanny

    Louise Bourgeois, Sheida Soleimani and Gillian Wearing are among the 30 female artists contributing to a show that is challenging, unsettling and sometimes downright uncomfortable

  • Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks

    This thoughtful and comprehensive retrospective spans more than 30 years of Wearing’s work, in which she explores the nature of identity and self and the masks – literal and metaphorical – behind which we hide

  • From Life

    This exhibition sets out to explore the significance of life drawing and the life class in art practice, but the real joy of drawing is largely overlooked

  • 31 Women

    Drawing on Peggy Guggenheim’s 1943 exhibition of the same name, 31 Women is a thoroughly relevant and equally captivating and surprising contemporary curation, opening dialogues across time and space

  • Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun: Behind the Mask, Another Mask

    Defying history, this exhibition reveals crucial parallels between the surrealist Claude Cahun and contemporary artist Gillian Wearing, from the birth to the death of their manifold identities

  • One and Other

    The Zabludowicz Collection sets the stage for a shrewd reflection on the real versus the created self in the modern age

  • Gillian Wearing: ‘I don’t have any typical practice. Every project is different’

    The artist talks about the ideas behind her latest film project, A Room With Your Views, which brings together footage from around the world and will be premiered at Brighton Festival

  • Reflections on the Self: From Dürer to Struth

    This exhibition explores the genre of the self-portrait, looking at the ways in which more than 50 artists from the 1400s onwards have sought to visualise the self