Gender and art

Rachel Whiteread's Vienna Holocaust memorial, perhaps her most prestigious work. Photo: Martin Gnedt/AP

 

It is almost exactly 20 years since Rachel Whiteread received official approval from a fractious coalition of councillors and residents in east London to create what still remains her best-known artwork, House. By the spring of 1993 there had already been two years of preparation for the project. Work eventually began that summer on the last remaining property in a demolished terrace on Grove Road, Bow.