Gillian Wearing

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Summary: An excellent and in-expensive Gillian Wearing reference.
Review: This book goes into great detail regarding Wearings past works, and some of her current 'works in progress.' There are plenty of examples of her photographs, including the 'Signs...' collection and stills of the many videos that she has produced. The most useful chapter is the interview with the artist. What I found most interesting was that the interviewer asks Wearing some good questions about her work, like why she chose to do it and how she went about asking her subjects to be in the photographs. The only problem that I found with the book was some of the language used. The writers are obviously fairly intelligent people and their wide vocabulary had me reading from a dictionary almost as much as I read the book. Such language does lead you to gloss over certain areas of the book which leaves you slightly unsatisfied. However as long as you can get through the book it offers a deep insight into all of the artists work and her life, containing plenty of photographic examples of her work, very useful.