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Community Art Inspiration: Gillian Wearing

Gillian Wearing is an English artist known for her photography and video work that explores public versus private life by recording ordinary people's confessions. The document discusses her 1992-1993 project where she approached people on London streets and had them write something on a card and display it, revealing private lives publicly. The author hopes to create a photography set of sixth form students to reflect both individual attributes and the diversity within the school community, inspired by Wearing's ability to reveal the unexpected through everyday subjects.

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Community Art Inspiration: Gillian Wearing

Gillian Wearing is an English artist known for her photography and video work that explores public versus private life by recording ordinary people's confessions. The document discusses her 1992-1993 project where she approached people on London streets and had them write something on a card and display it, revealing private lives publicly. The author hopes to create a photography set of sixth form students to reflect both individual attributes and the diversity within the school community, inspired by Wearing's ability to reveal the unexpected through everyday subjects.

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Unit 14 Community Art P2

Community Art Inspiration: Gillian Wearing


Gillian Wearing is an English photographer and video artist. She has described her working method as editing life. By using photography and video to record the confessions of ordinary people, her work explores the disparities between public and private life, between individual and collective experience. I am most interested in her project Signs that Say What You Want Them to Say and Not Signs that Say What Someone Else Wants You to Say (19923), made shortly after her graduation from Goldsmiths College in 1990. It was produced by approaching people on London streets, asking them to write something on a card and then photographing them as they displayed it. Private lives were given a sudden and revealingly painful exposure.

I feel by using photography in this way I will be able to reflect ambitions of individuals, and this may be things people do not know about the other. Through Gillians photography it is evident that a revelation is created through the most unlikely, with the policemans choice of phrase being HELP. It can be argued that her photography creates a sense of realism due to everyday people creating the emphasis and impact in her work. I hope my photography set of various sixth form students will reflect the attributes of the school, and how different and unique we are as individuals.

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