Rachel Whiteread on Drawing

Following on from yesterday's Jerwood Drawing Prize post, this is another post about 'drawing'.

This is Rachel Whiteread talking about drawing - in a very normal, accessible, everyday way in a video by Tate Britain. It was filmed for her exhibition of her drawings at Tate Britain in 2010

Another exhibition opened last week at Tate Britain - simply called Rachel Whiteread

Celebrating over 25 years of Rachel Whiteread’s internationally acclaimed sculpture

The exhibition is on until 21 January 2018.

Rachel Whiteread's Drawings

• Tate Britain exhibition website http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/rachel-whiteread-drawings
• Tate Article - ‘The process of drawing is like writing a diary: it's a nice way of thinking about time passing’
• The Observer - Rachel Whiteread: Drawings review of Tate Exhibition

The show that can overturn one's attitude to an artist is as rare as hen's teeth. The show that can achieve this solely through drawings – unless the artist is a draughtsman – is even less common.

• The Independent - Rachel Whiteread: Drawings, Tate Britain, London A day in the life of a door knob

This first-ever museum exhibition of her drawings shows Whiteread doodling (her word) on paper, using pencil, gouache, ink, correcting fluid (to build texture). She calls these drawings her working diary, but they are in no way personal or confessional. They don't throw back at us any kind of image of the sculptor. They feel coolly constructed, painstakingly analytical. They remind us of work by the minimalists – paintings by Frank Stella from the 1960s, or stacked units by Donald Judd. They are cerebrally set apart from us.