About this artwork

This work originates in a photograph taken at the time of the making of a video, also called The Garden, in 1993. The artist had invited a transvestite whom she knew well, a prostitute whom she knew vaguely, and an escort, whom she had never met, to choose a slogan shirt and perform in the video. Wearing herself is depicted in the print, second left. The unscripted film shows the women mucking about and getting tipsy on wine. The T-shirts, like uniforms, both declare and mask the nature of the character. This work is from a portfolio of prints by eleven different London-based artists, called Screen. The title is taken from the screenprint technique but also refers to the fact that most of the artists had worked with film or photography.

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Gillian Wearing

Gillian Wearing