© the artist, courtesy Maureen Paley, London
THE GARDEN 1997
Gillian Wearing (1963 – )
Details
- Dimension
- 890 x 606 mm
- Media
- SCREENPRINT
- Accession number
- P6915
Summary
The Garden is part of the Screemportfolio. The work had its origins in a video, ‘The Garden’, which Wearing made in 1993. A transvestite, a prostitute and an escort girl were invited to assemble, alongside the artist, in a garden and then asked to wear T-shirts, purchased by the artist, and invited to perform in the video. Wearing herself appears second left in this work
Further reading:
Contemporary Art in Print, Booth Clibborn Editions, London 2001. Texts by Jeremy Lewison and Patrick Elliott, foreword by Charles Booth-Clibborn
Glossary
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Video
Images recorded on videotape or on optical disc to be viewed on television screens, or projected onto screens. The medium through which these images are recorded and displayed.
