I think the difference between me and some of the other YBAs [Young British Artists] was that I was ambitious for the work, and not ambitious for mys… - Rachel Whiteread

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I think the difference between me and some of the other YBAs [Young British Artists] was that I was ambitious for the work, and not ambitious for myself.

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About 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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Alternative Names: Dame Rachel Whiteread
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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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