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Gillian Wearing

British · b. 1963

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British, born 1963

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Born 1963

1990s

‘I like to be in the country’

‘I like to be in the country’

‘Everything is connected in life...’

‘Everything is connected in life...’

‘I have been certified as mildly insane!’

‘I have been certified as mildly insane!’

‘I’m desperate’

‘I’m desperate’

+8

2000s

My Man

Self-Portrait at 17 Years Old

Sleeping Mask (for Parkett no. 70)

Self Portrait as my Grandmother Nancy Gregory

Self Portrait as my Grandmother Nancy Gregory

+1

2010s

Self Portrait of Me Now in Mask

Self Portrait at Twenty Seven Years Old

Self Portrait at Twenty Seven Years Old

Works

19 artworks

‘I like to be in the country’

‘I like to be in the country’

, 1992

‘Everything is connected in life...’

‘Everything is connected in life...’

, 1992

‘I have been certified as mildly insane!’

‘I have been certified as mildly insane!’

, 1992

‘I’m desperate’

‘I’m desperate’

, 1992

‘I signed on and they would not give me nothing’

‘I signed on and they would not give me nothing’

, 1992

Confess All On Video. Don't Worry You Will Be in Disguise. Intrigued? Call Gillian Version II

, 1994

Dancing in Peckham

, 1994

Confess All On Video. Don’t Worry You Will Be in Disguise. Intrigued? Call Gillian Version II

Confess All On Video. Don’t Worry You Will Be in Disguise. Intrigued? Call Gillian Version II

, 1994

Homage to the Woman with the Bandaged Face I Saw Yesterday Down Walworth Road

Homage to the Woman with the Bandaged Face I Saw Yesterday Down Walworth Road

, 1995

Drunk

, 1997

Sascha and Mum from the Museum in Progress project Interventions: Cooperation Secession: Individual Exhibitions

, 1997

The Garden

, 1997

My Man

, 2000

Self-Portrait at 17 Years Old

, 2003

Sleeping Mask (for Parkett no. 70)

, 2004

Self Portrait as my Grandmother Nancy Gregory

Self Portrait as my Grandmother Nancy Gregory

, 2006

Self Portrait as my Grandfather George Gregory

Self Portrait as my Grandfather George Gregory

, 2006

Self Portrait of Me Now in Mask

, 2011

Self Portrait at Twenty Seven Years Old

Self Portrait at Twenty Seven Years Old

, 2012