The Garden
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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artist:Gillian Wearing (born 1963) English
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title:The Garden
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date created:1997
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materials:Screenprint: 9 screens, plus varnish
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measurements:Image and paper size: 60.60 x 88.90 cm (framed: 85.80 x 117.00 x 2.70 cm)
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credit line:Purchased 1998
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accession number:GMA 4200 I
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Gillian Wearing
Gillian Wearing
Gillian Wearing was born in Birmingham. She studied at Chelsea School of Art and Design and Goldsmiths College, London. In 1992 the artist began a series of works in which she approached people in the street, gave them a sheet of paper, asked them to write something on it, and then photographed the...