About Gillian Wearing

Gillian Wearing CBE, RA (born 10 December 1963) is an English conceptual artist, one of the Young British Artists, and winner of the 1997 Turner Prize. In 2007 Wearing was elected as lifetime member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

Gillian Wearing’s films, photographs and sculptures investigate public personas and private lives. In 2018, her statue of Millicent Fawcett was unveiled to commemorate the centenary of the Representation of the People Act 1918, through the Government’s national centenary fund.