Rachel Whiteread, CBE ( born 20 April 1963 ) is an English artist, best known for her sculptures, which typically take the form of casts.

On 24 May 2004, a fire in a storage warehouse destroyed many works from the Saatchi collection, including, it is believed, some by Whiteread.

Created by British artist Rachel Whiteread, the memorial is a reinforced concrete cube resembling a library with its volumes turned inside out.

The Faculty of Arts at the University of Brighton has an international reputation for being one of the UK's leading design institutions and it has educated many key figures in the Arts, Turner Prize winners Keith Tyson and Rachel Whiteread studied at the Faculty of Arts, as did Keith Coventry, the winner of 2010 John Moores Painting Prize, the artist Alison Lapper, Cliff Wright, illustrator of the Harry Potter books, the designer Julien Macdonald and the writer-illustrator Emily Gravett.

When one of the possible original room 101s at the BBC was due to be demolished, a plaster cast was made by artist Rachel Whiteread.

Unlike many other Young British Artists who often seem to welcome controversy, Whiteread has often said how uncomfortable she feels about it.

In 1992, Charles Saatchi staged a series of exhibitions of Young British Art, the first show included works by Sarah Lucas, Rachel Whiteread and Damien Hirst.

1992 – Curates its first Young British Artists show Damien Hirst, Marc Quinn, Rachel Whiteread, Gavin Turk, Glenn Brown, Sarah Lucas, Jenny Saville and Gary Hume were all presented in these exhibitions.

* 1993 – Rachel Whiteread wins both the £ 20, 000 Turner Prize award for best British modern artist and the £ 40, 000 K Foundation art award for the worst artist of the year.

Artists whose work has been exhibited, include Bridget Riley, Rachel Whiteread, Richard Long and Jack Yeats.

The Turner Prize-winning artist Rachel Whiteread was a student at Southgate School.

Her father was a geography teacher, polytechnic administrator and lifelong supporter of the Labour Party, who died when Whiteread was studying at art school in 1989.

The K Foundation reportedly pre-announced Rachel Whiteread as their winner at 2pm or, at least, at some time before the Turner ; at 9. 30pm, live on television, the Turner Prize was awarded to the same artist.

Whiteread reluctantly collected her K Foundation winnings at just past 11pm, saying, " sarcastically, " What an honour.

Other noted residents include Arabella Weir, Alan Plater, James Heartfield and, formerly, the sculptor Rachel Whiteread, whose most famous work ' Ghost ' - now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC-consists of a plaster cast of a room in the house at 486 Archway Road.

The collection housed at the Philbrook Museum of Art includes works from Giovanni Bellini, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, William Merritt Chase, Leonardo Drew, Arturo Herrera, Charles Loloma, Maria Martinez, Thomas Moran, Fritz Scholder, Tanzio da Varallo, Rachel Whiteread, and Andrew Wyeth.

Venezia 93 ' exhibition with works by Gilbert and George, Frank Auerbach, Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon, Shirazeh Houshiary, Anish Kapoor, Ronald Kitaj, Malcolm Morley, Ray Smith, and Rachel Whiteread.

* 1997 — Sculptures by Rachel Whiteread.

Other nominees included abstract painters Ian Davenport, Fiona Rae and sculptor Rachel Whiteread.

Rachel Whiteread was the winner for House, a concrete cast of a house on the corner of Grove Road and Roman Road, London E3.

Rachel Whiteread was awarded their prize.

Whiteread was born in London and raised in the Essex countryside, until age seven, when the family returned to London.

Whiteread mainly focuses on the line and the form for her pieces.

On the evening of 23 November 1993, Rachel Whiteread was presented with the 1993 Turner Prize inside London's Tate Gallery, and the 1994 K Foundation award on the street outside.

" Predicting that Rachel Whiteread, creator of the controversial sculpture, House, would win both awards, the magazine said that, if it were so, " the vast numbers of people who equate contemporary art with rubbish will, yet again, feel vindicated.

Rachel Whiteread had already been notified of her " victory " but had refused to accept the prize or allow the K Foundation to use her name.

The motorcade left the site of the amending of art-history and headed back to London, for a showdown with Whiteread on the steps of the Tate.

I had petrol all over the £ 40, 000 ... We were due to wait until eleven o ' clock until she came out, but we were told to wait another two minutes ... Rachel Whiteread came running out.

But there's one thing I never seen or heard of, one thing I just don't think there is, and that's a sportin' way o' killin' a man ''!!

I seized the rack and made a western-style flying-mount just in time, one of my knees mercifully landing on my duffel bag -- and merely wrecking my camera, I was to discover later -- my other knee landing on the slivery truck floor boards and -- but this is no medical report.

The true artist is like one of those scientists who, from a single bone can reconstruct an animal's entire body.

In fact, one important aspect of their very religion is the annihilation of men ''.

It took thirty of our women almost six moons to build this one, which is higher and stronger than the old one.

I clapped the big man with the bleached hair on his shoulder and said heartily, hoping it would make an impression on the women: `` This one is the maku Frayne.

`` This one is a tender chicken, oui??

but he presents it publicly so enmeshed in hypocrisy that it is not an honest one.

My definition of this much abused adjective is that a reconstructed rebel is one who is glad that the North won the War.

For one thing, this is not a subject often discussed or analyzed.

The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i.e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history.

A third, one of at least equal and perhaps even greater importance, is now being traversed: American immersion and involvement in world affairs.

Today, as new nations rise from the former colonial empires, nationalism is one of the hurricane forces loose in the world.

Historically, however, the concept is one that has been of marked benefit to the people of the Western civilizational group.

It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).

But it is more than irony: one of the main reasons why nationalism is no longer a tenable concept is because it has spread throughout the planet.

Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.

Only one rule prevailed in my conversations with these men: The more highly placed they are -- that is, the more they know -- the more concerned they have become.

However, the system is designed, ingeniously and hopefully, so that no one man could initiate a thermonuclear war.