Earl R. Merrill: Artist Rachel Whiteread On Playing With Space And Air, The Contemporary Art Audience, And How Artists Are Being Pushed Out Of East London

Monday, October 1, 2018

Artist Rachel Whiteread On Playing With Space And Air, The Contemporary Art Audience, And How Artists Are Being Pushed Out Of East London

Whiteread, the first woman to win the Turner Prize, on the Shoreditch area of London: “We couldn’t stand Shoreditch any longer. It’s just a hellhole. I know we artists contributed to making it that way [gentrified, expensive, noisy], but it had become monstrous. Everybody I know has left.”