She doesn't mind, because she herself finds it very hard to talk. I dunno what it is, but it's there and sometimes it can click when you see people.'. Anyhow, when they did, they went on a trip around England's theme parks: Blackpool, Alton Towers, Chessington. Christine and Gillian became friends, went to Aston Villa football matches together. She says she thinks of much of her work as portraiture, but portraits where the subject has some personal voice, 'because it's too easy for a photograph to make people look like something they're not'. This work was inspired by 'fly-on-the-wall' documentaries and confessional TV chat shows, but it also evokes the religious ritual of confession and its modern secular equivalent, psychoanalysis. I like roller coasters, and we have a lovely time. But the effect on the viewer is to create a craving for the authentic experience. Her shyness is another important, though unseen, factor in her art. 'I dunno. Her new work takes this theme into the realm of an AI-created self-ad, made with advertising agency Wieden + Kennedy, which mimics the blurring of sincerity and manipulation that is rife in the way we present ourselves through social media. 1997. 'I actually was, I can talk a lot more now, but a few years ago I tried to talk, and I have changed a lot in my ability to talk, I couldn't just talk, talk to people, I've never been a great talker or just trying to think about, try to, try to be able to talk for many years. She communicates her liking for you through subtle little gestures, funny snuffly laughter. Hello Gillian, thank you for taking the time to talk to us. Gillian Wearing Interviews 8 October – 12 November 2005 Opening times Mon - Sat, 11:00 - 18:00 Bloomberg SPACE 50 Finsbury Square London, EC2A 1HD gallery@bloomberg.net Sunday 4th September, 2005 - Gillian’s House Sacha Craddock: I want to talk to you about your commission for Bloomberg SPACE. 70, 2004. She laughs, composes herself, takes a breath. The first sculpture of a woman by a female artist in London’s Parliament Square was unveiled to the public on Tuesday. Her words are jerky and swallowed, as though she's trying to suck them back as soon as she's uttered them, and she sometimes misses out vital phrases. Punk happened, swiftly followed by ska and rude boy, then new romantic, then Goth. Gillian Wearing: In my studio, it sort of looks like an office with a very long table/desk, cabinets, a sofa and three office chairs. She's like her subjects. 'I feel funny about people seeing work when I haven't quite worked out what to do with it.'. Not have shouting arguments, but argue, meaning discussion.' She shows Fawcett, faithfully enough, as a woman in an ankle-length dress (ornamented by a brooch cast from one she owned, a small note of added authenticity) and … Gillian Wearing 'We need to approach life with the notion we are all mentally ill' Conceptual artist Gillian Wearing emerged in the 1990s as part of a bold generation of artists that helped define modern British art. There's nothing particularly attention-seeking about her (unlike, say, Tracey or Damien): she seems a bit shy, though not unfriendly. They make work that is about everyday life and everyday death (and they don't paint it in oils, which is possibly why they have so much time to socialise). They asked me why I was cutting books, in front of all the students, and all I could say was, I don't like 'em.'. Gillian Wearing We ask the artist about her favourite book, writer and work of art as well her thoughts on the most underrated— and overrated—cultural figures . 'And I did, and didn't actually say anything, just sort of nn uh yuh un uh.' All Rights Reserved. Call Gillian … (1994). She was incredibly nervous - 'I could have bumped into my neighbours' - and had to have a couple of whiskies before she went out. In an interview with ACNE Paper, Wearing answered to the question ‘if there is a particular work of yours that comes closest to revealing the ‘real’ Gillian Wearing’: “No… we all have multiple selves and complex characters, there is no such thing as one defined real self, so no work can wholly represent me in … Sophie Risner is a freelance art writer and critic living in London. About the Turner Prize (she got very drunk, made 'a really embarrassing speech that no one could understand', went to the Atlantic Bar, and fell asleep; she didn't produce any work for about a year afterwards). She calls Michael out of the kitchen, asks him what he thinks. 'Courage calls to courage everywhere': Suffragist sculpture unveiled in London Gillian Wearing talks about creating the first statue of a woman—and by a female artist—in Parliament Square Gillian hasn't got a studio at the moment, which partially explains the chaos of her flat. As John Slyce puts it: “Gillian Wearing does not suffer the indignity of speaking for others.”. She's like everyone else. The day after we meet, Gillian phones me up. Gillian Anderson’s Beauty Secrets Revealed! Photo: Jean Vong. For years, still sometimes when I go to places I have to breathe to get my head lightheaded because I'm so nervous about, I can still have these kind of blocks where I can't, or if I do you can tell that I'm so nervous and what I'm saying is so bad. Our interview with Turner Prize winner Gillian Wearing OBE. She recalls the hours she'd spend on white, pancake make-up, fussing with her unco-oporative hair, drawing lines around her eyes to make them bigger, squeezing into a ridiculous taffeta skirt so tight that 'I could only make fairy steps.' Still,' says Gillian, wryly, 'at least everyone on the bus saw what we looked like.'. Hi,Judy. Still, there were people dressed as animals wandering through the foyer all night: 'It was amazing,' sighs Gillian. Gillian Wearing CBE, RA (born 10 December 1963) is an English conceptual artist, one of the Young British Artists, and winner of the 1997 Turner Prize. It's vague territory. Gillian Wearing says that it is being shy that has made her such a bold artist. Gillian and Michelle listened to music together, tried out make-up, began to bunk off school. 'I saw it just before you arrived.' And it is chaos. 'It is here somewhere,' she murmurs. They like pop music and TV. 'Oh, I don't think anyone's ordinary,' says Gillian Wearing. 7 videos for framed plasma screens. She left school two years later with no qualifications. She recalls seeing him dance: he had this move where he waggled his hand in front of his face (she demonstrates: it appears that the lovely George was trying to flush himself down the toilet). Pauline est la créatrice du webzine culturel The Arts Factory Magazine. 'She stood out. The mother speaks of her admiration for her children, but also of the way they make her feel like a failure. What do you look for? Turner Prize-winner Gillian Wearing produces candid videos and photographs revealing the disconnect between our inner lives and public personas, the individual and society, and truth and fiction. Well, that's a, ahem, tribute to one of Gillian's photographic works: 1993's Signs that say what you want them to say and not signs that say what someone else wants you to say. The cat hides behind the sofa. Feb 27, 2018 - This comprehensive survey, premiering new films and sculptures, shows how Wearing is both political and poetic, finding the extraordinary in us all. British-born photo, video and performance-based artist Gillian Wearing is best known for bringing home the 1997 Turner prize and her series of direct street portraits, Signs that say what you want them to say and not Signs that say what someone else wants you to say (1992-3). Unusually, her shyness isn't hard work: she's very restful to be around. He can talk to anyone' - but they didn't get it together until four years ago. A precursor to reality television, the programme had a considerable impact on Gillian Wearing, whose practice has, for around 20 years, looked at the construction of ‘real-life’ drama. Gillian Wearing interview: the former YBA on bringing the statue of Millicent Fawcett to Parliament Square. Gillian Wearing: Family Stories “I’m so fascinated by our relationship with new technologies: how we adapt them to our need, and how they change us as human beings.” Gillian Wearing discusses social media, Danishness and rethinking the family model. People open up to Gillian Wearing. 'And one of the first things I did was cutting up books. Then the car drops straight down, there's a flash of light and you hurtle into darkness, a strangely cold, wet darkness... until, just as it feels as though you really will have a heart attack, you level out, shoot round a corner and surface. Ben Luke. Neo Conceptual Art .. Gillian Wearing: The idea of a show at the Whitechapel was muted in 2006 with Iwona, just after Doris Krystof from K20 Museum in Düsseldorf had also invited me to do a survey show. Probably a good time to go through Gillian's history. Premature exhilaration. Gillian, 36, has a young face and long, straight black hair, and she wears men's trousers and patterned shirts. Blimey. 'By the time we caught the 51 bus and made it all the way into town, it was time to catch the last one back again. Inspired by documentaries, reality television, and the artifice of theater, Wearing describes her … Words by Paola Paleari Self Portrait, 2000 It is often surprising meeting people you are familiar with through images, both still and moving, as they never look quite as you imagine. She drinks hot Ribena; she talks about Big Brother. says Gillian Wearing cheerfully, as we collect our souvenir picture. Sometimes, her speech is almost incomprehensible. I'd rather see the countryside in a film; I stay in the car when people go for walks.') She studies it quizzically. 'Everyone's different. British-born photo, video and performance-based artist Gillian Wearing is best known for bringing home the 1997 Turner prize and her series of direct street portraits, Signs that say what you want them to say and not Signs that say what someone else wants you to say (1992-3). Jainne-Ann has a perm and a saucy look; Richard is pulling faces and giving the thumbs up. It's not to do with ideas at all, it's just the idea of talking really, just the talking about anything.' And I change my mind about Gillian. It feels natural, moisturizing, smooth and silky and gives great coverage without making it feel like I’m wearing anything. Now, shy as she is, she will approach someone in the street just because they've 'got something about them'; talk to them, explain she's an artist, ask if they'd mind having their photo taken. He walked about 10ft away from us, stared straight through us. This selection of five images shows the range of responses which Wearing elicited from passers-by, whom she selected at random, and asked to write their thoughts on a piece of paper. This video ventriloquism is consistent with Wearing’s interest in the idea of masks. She studied at Chelsea School of Art, London, 1985-7 and Goldsmiths College, London, 1987-90. So we decide to go to Alton Towers. Much has been made of the way in which Gillian Wearing's work anticipated social media. Wearing lives and works in London. We never know how Wearing coaxes her subjects into saying what they do, and, after all, they might be actors. Gillian Wearing 'We need to approach life with the notion we are all mentally ill' Conceptual artist Gillian Wearing emerged in the 1990s as part of a bold generation of artists that helped define modern British art. Not only does the actress meditate every morning to keep her #calm, but Gillian is also a fan of squeezing in exercise (when she can! For this series, Wearing stood on a busy street and asked passers-by to write down what was on their mind. For one of her earliest works included here she placed an advertisement in Time Out that later became the title: Confess All On Video. Gillian Wearing doesn't conform to the usual YBA stereotypes - she's shy, reluctant to talk about herself and loves a mug of hot Ribena. ', On the same day, Gillian met Christine Knight. He says he hasn't met her family often enough to tell. Up until then, she was her own canvas. In a Harper's Bazaar interview ahead of ... the idea of having Anderson wear prosthetic teeth). Sponsored by The Observer, the show will include older work, such as Dancing in Peckham, Sasha and Mum, 2 into 1 , Homage to the Woman..., plus some new stuff: Drunk, Trauma. Gillian Wearing: In my studio, it sort of looks like an office with a very long table/desk, cabinets, a sofa and three office chairs. 'It's all about death, isn't it?' Interview by . Outside school was getting better and better. I'm transfixed by people that I see that do stand out, whether they want to or not. I really am sorry for always asking questions.Partly it is because I am pretty inquisitive and partly just because I enjoy reading your opinions and am still grateful for all your insightful earlier posts. A renowned artist who was aligned with the YBAs in the '90s, but whose work was more socially directed, the 48-year-old Wearing makes portraits through fragmentary imagery and texts that test the emancipatory potential of public address. Why? Her statue of the suffragist Millicent Fawcett stands in London's Parliament Square. I always wanted a space like an office as I was a secretary before becoming an artist; I liked the comfort of offices. There's no references. There's no hidden system: when she tries to find a video of the preparation she did for Dancing in Peckham , she spends a good quarter of an hour trying to locate it. Interview. by Mary Pelletier May 18, 2017 May 18, 2017 Print School wasn't going too well. She huffs and puffs all the way. Too much perspective. You know that VW advert that shows a security guard, a harassed mother and others holding up a handwritten sign that says what they're supposedly feeling (the security guard's one says 'Sensitive', the mother's 'Sex Chocolate Sex Chocolate'). She's not unhappy about me asking; it's just that she genuinely hasn't a clue how to answer. She approached her because 'her shoes were much better than mine' (they were platforms). Gillian, 36, has a young face and long, straight black hair, and she wears men's trousers and patterned shirts. I know that you are a long way into it now; you have done so much research and preparation, … Looks were very important to Gillian, when she was young. Yet, despite her look-at-me outer shell, she was a quiet, shy person, drawn to others, like Boy George, like Christine and Michelle, whom she considered more interesting than herself. Self Portrait, 2000. It's just theft.'. When we get there, Gillian confesses that she likes funfairs so much that she persuaded Michael to go to one on their first date. Gillian Wearing Mask Masked fabric mask, wax sculpture, steel rod and wooden plinth 56 x 14 x 10 cm 22 x 5 1/2 x 3 7/8 inches plinth: 92 x 38 x 28 cm 2020 . She then photographed them holding their statements. Gillian Wearing: 60 Minutes of Silence. Wearing is an established British conceptual artist who came to fame during the prominence of the YBA’s. There are no pictures, anywhere, other than a large photograph of a young girl with her writing underneath, pinned to the sitting-room wall. She explores language beautifully now - allowing people to speak as they wish, freeing them by letting them hide behind masks, or write things down, or by, in the case of Drunk, letting her subjects - a group of local homeless people - express themselves, yet not really speak properly at all. On Saturday nights, she'd go round to Michelle's to go out. Interviews Votre recherche : Nicholas Cullinan - Catherine Kate Middleton, duchesse de Cambridge arrive à l'exposition de Gillian Wearing à Londres le 28 mars 2017. Critics have commented on the artist's fascination with other people's interior lives compared to her apparent lack of interest in her own, to which she responds "I wouldn't put myself in a work confessing as it is too self conscious. Wikidata Artwork page for ‘‘Everything is connected in life...’’, Gillian Wearing CBE, 1992–3 Wearing’s photographs explore how the public and private identities of ordinary people are self-fashioned and documented. And city kid Gillian misreads the Alton Towers map and leads us literally up a very long garden path. Once she became easy with approaching people for Signs, she noticed that the thoughts they wrote down became less interesting. Gillian herself appears very non-confrontational. On 9 March, the National Portrait Gallery opened Behind the Mask, Another Mask – a large exhibition of Gillian Wearing’s work in relation to the practice of French surrealist artist Claude Cahun. “I have to act with my eyes, since they are the only parts of me visible, and each persona I capture needs a different approach,” she explains. The woman was out with friends, going clubbing, enjoying herself, entirely ordinary except for her white swaddling mask. "I am less art critic and more art writer - I find the idea of critiquing art through writing difficult in a purely formalist fashion. Wearing works in a wide range of media, always provocatively plumbing the most ordinary human dramas for their extraordinary, often ironic, content. Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York. Practice: Gillian Wearing is known for her method of documentation of the everyday life through photography and video, concerning individual identity within the private and the public spaces, where Wearing blurs the line between reality and fiction. Gillian Wearing: 'I've always been a bit of a listener' Tim Adams . “I’m Not an Assassin!”: Fran Lebowitz on Not Sleeping, Not Writing, and Not Naming Names, Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany Test Their Real-Life Chemistry, Why We Could All Use a Tavi Gevinson Podcast Right About Now, Everyone, Including Fran Lebowitz, Loves Dolly Parton, Kyle Ng of Brain Dead Wants to Connect the World. Interview by Waldemar Januszczak. Nous voudrions effectuer une description ici mais le site que vous consultez ne nous en laisse pas la possibilité. They stayed in the Alton Towers Hotel, but couldn't afford a themed room. There, she was forced to speak. “I think my idols tell the audience more about me than my family could as I have chosen them and, of course, you don't choose your family”, comments Gillian Wearing when we discuss her self portraits wearing masks of her family members and photographic idols. Gillian Wearing, Me as Cahun Holding a Mask of My Face, 2012. In many of her works, Wearing creates zones and contexts that might offer expression and release. It's simplistic, but you could say that Gillian's teenage years and passions eventually turned themselves inside out and became her work. Gillian had a haircut for each. From there, she went to Goldsmiths, in 1987; two years behind the breakthrough Hirst Frieze year. In 2007 Wearing was elected as lifetime member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. During the day, we chat about this and that. We couldn't afford it'), places like Rumrunner, where pre-fame Duran Duran and Boy George hung out. 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