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Gillian Wearing RA

Left: Claude Cahun, 'I am in training don't kiss me', c.1927. Right: Gillian Wearing RA, 'Me as Cahun holding a mask of my face', 2012.

Artists

> 4 years ago

The many masks of Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun

As a new show at the National Portrait Gallery places the two artists side by side, Lauren Elkin explores how Gillian Wearing RA finds identity-blurring inspiration in the inter-war writer and photographer Claude Cahun.
Clockwise from left: Rose Wylie RA, Gillian Wearing RA, Iwona Blazwick, Eileen Cooper RA, vPPR, Ann Dumas, Charlotte Mullins, Valeria Napoleone, Cornelia Parker RA, Rebecca Ackroyd

Opinion

> 5 years ago

10 inspirational women in the arts

To mark International Women’s Day, we asked some of the great women in the UK art world, from artists to editors, where things stand when it comes to equality. Here’s what they said.
Gillian Wearing RA

Artists

> 9 years ago

In the studio with Gillian Wearing RA

We speak to the painter in her minimalist studio in London’s East End, which is filled with an unexpected riot of colour.