When my children arrived.
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Rachel Whiteread
English artist
United Kingdom · b. 1963
Arts and letters
About
Born in Essex, Rachel Whiteread, 54, studied painting at Brighton Polytechnic. She went on to do an MA in sculpture at the Slade. In 1993, House, her life-size cast of the interior of a terrace house, was the first work by a woman to win the Turner prize. Her major public projects include the Holocaust Memorial (1995) in Vienna, Monument (2001) in Trafalgar Square and Cabin (2016) in New York. A retrospective of her work is at Tate Britain, London, until 21 January. She has two sons with the artist Marcus Taylor.
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I would have thought more about exercise and a healthy lifestyle in my 20s, 30s and 40s.
A car, which is used like a van; I should have just bought the van.
A warm, frayed, soft blanket.
Losing my parents when they were relatively young. My dad was 59 and my mum died at 72, 14 years ago.
People inspiring the new generation of politically active youngsters.
Serving tea in an insurance office to people who seemed to despise me at the age of 16 was pretty unpleasant.
As I get older, sleeping gets harder. I exercise, I do mindfulness, I take drugs occasionally.
First something medical, then, without any doubt, an artist.
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