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Sculptor Rachel Whiteread is one of Britains fine artists with a growing reputation at home and abroad. She was born in London, in 1963. In 1997 she was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters by Staffordshire University.Throughout her career she has held many solo and group exhibitions, her first solo exhibition was at the Carlisle Gallery, London in 1988. Her first group exhibiton was Whitworths Young Contemporaries, Manchester in 1987. Whiteread is a distinguished artist who has created an innovative body of work reflecting a quiet and contemplative spirit, she has recieved a number of awards such as the Tate Gallery's Turner Prize in 1993, and a medal at the 1997 Venice Biennale. Most recently, in the summer of 2001, her work was featured in a retrospective at the Serpentine Gallery in London, and a public sculpture entitled Monument was unveiled in Trafalgar Square. Whiteread described this piece as...

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