A: Clapton Park Estate, Mandeville Street, London E5; Ambergate Court; Norbury Court, October 1993
Date1996
Artist
Rachel Whiteread
(English sculptor and printmaker, born 1963)
Publisher
The Paragon Press
(founded 1986)
Printer/Printmaker
Coriander Studio
MediumDuo-tone screen print
Dimensionssheet: 19 1/4 × 29 1/4 in. (48.9 × 74.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Jean Athan Dugdale, 2002
Object number2003-25.8
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextRachel Whiteread's work provides a contemporary interpretation of the land and its use from an urban perspective. These four images are from a larger series titled Demolished, in which Whiteread documents the demolition of high-rise, low-income housing during the years of Margaret Thatcher's conservative government. Whiteread's images are to a certain extent testimony to the return of the urban landscape to its (semi-) pastoral form-but, at the expense of the (previous) inhabitants of the housing, which has been destroyed.
