This book of the landmark Whiteread exhibition marks a crucial point in Whiteread's career ? this is the first time she has allowed her drawings to be so openly displayed since the nearly nineties, before she became the world renowned artist she is now. Since a residency in Berlin in 1992-3 when she developed her drawing she has often attached a label to the back of her artwork that read ?It is Rachel Whiteread's expressed wish that none of her drawings should be exhibited alongside her sculptures.' She views her drawings as personal, and they are fundamental to the development of her famous sculptures. Many critics would say that whereas Whiteread's sculptures are all about other people's past lives it is in her drawings that you can see her own life and memories. ?My drawings are a diary of my work' Whiteread admits and as in passages of a written diary her drawings range from fleeting ideas to intense reflections. This book will bring the reader closer to Rachel Whiteread and her work than ever before possible. AUTHOR: Rachel Whiteread won the Turner Prize in 1993 with her work House and has since produced critically acclaimed work such as Water Tower, which graced New York's skyline in 1998, and Holocaust Memorial in Vienna in 2000. From 11th October 2005 ? 1st May 2006 her work Embankment was displayed in the turbine hall at Tate Modern in London. ILLUSTRATIONS 200 illustrations
