The Works
The Monument
S4 • E3 Oct 18, 1997
Turner prize-winning sculptor Rachel Whiteread isoneof Britain's leading artists with a growing reputation at home and abroad. The last year has been an extraordinary one for her: she's had a major retrospective at the Liverpool Tate and was the British representative at the 47th Venice Biennale, where she won the prestigious Award given each year to the best young artists. This film follows heroverthe course of the year as she struggled to fulfil her commission to build a Holocaust memorial in Vienna.