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Art and Design: 1 of 3                                                                                             Art and Design: 2 of 3



 Sculpture     Sculpture                                                                                                       Look closely at Untitled



               Rachel Whiteread (1963- current)                                                                                (Book Corridors), and
 Kendra Haste (1971- current) is a British   is a British Sculptor was the first                                               you will see that what

 wildlife artist who produces sculptures   woman to win the annual Turner                                                      initially registers in your

 using galvanized chicken wire mesh to   Prize in 1993.                                                                        mind as books on
 create wire sculptures of wild animals.
                                                                                                                               shelves is actually a cast
                                                                                                                               of the spaces between

                                                                                                                               shelves. There are no

                                                                                                                               books or shelves left in
                                                                                                                               the work, only the

                                                                                                                               ruffled edges of pages

                                                           Damien Hirst (1965- current) is a                                   torn out. It’s the

 KEY WORDS                                                 contemporary artist and sculptor. He                                invisible spaces around

 Manipulate                                                designed Verity in 2012. She stands at                              us that Whiteread has
                                                           20.25-metre (66.4 ft) on the pier at the
 Line                                                      entrance to the harbour in Ilfracombe. She                          turned our focus to.

 Shape                                                     looks out over the Bristol Channel towards

 Form                                                      South Wales. The name of the piece refers                           "A sculptor is a person

 Scale                                                     to "truth" and Hirst describes his work as a                        obsessed with the form

 Dexterity                                                 "modern allegory of truth and justice"                              and the shape of
                                                                                                                               things"...Moore
 Conceptual
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