"I make all this stuff in the studio, but I also work on these white elephants — like House or Untitled Monument — things that are incredibly ambitious, take an awful long time to do, involve a lot of controversy, an awful lot of people, and don't make any money particularly, but it's just because I need to make them."
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As quoted in "Some day my plinth will come" by Lynn Barber in The Guardian (27 May 2001)
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Rachel Whiteread
Rachel Whiteread (born 20 April 1963) is a Turner Prize-winning artist, best known for her sculptures, which typically take the form of casts. She was one of the so-called Young British Artists, and exhibited at the Royal Academy's Sensation exhibition in 1997. She created House, a large concrete cast of the inside of a Victorian house, and a resin sculpture, Monument, for the empty plinth in London's Trafalgar Square.
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