→ Rachel Whiteread began her career making resin casts of the insides of hot water bottles and the undersides of chairs. From here she graduated to larger interiors: offices, libraries and living rooms. It earned her a reputation as the world's leading sculptor of space, an artist who explores the ghostly gaps between objects and conjures an absence into a substance.→ Whiteread's, Untitled (Stacks), 1999, plaster, polystyrene and steel, seen above, uses a cast of an ordinary object, in this case a libray book shelf. The space the objects do not inhabit, the 'negative space' is used to produce a solid cast of where the space within a container would be; particular parts of rooms, the area underneath furniture, for example. She says the casts carry "the residue of years and years of use". Whiteread mainly focuses on the line and the form for her pieces.
→ Refereshingly, unlike many other Young British Artists who often seem to welcome controversy, Whiteread has often said how uncomfortable she feels about it.
