Rachel Whiteread

Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the artist Rachel Whiteread.

She came to public prominence in 1993 with the life-size concrete cast of a Victorian house in East London. The sculpture prompted a public debate about what conceptual art is - the house was destroyed shortly afterwards. At the same time, Whiteread was named winner of the Turner Prize at the age of 30. She had studied sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art and became one of the generation of Young British Artists, with her work displayed alongside that of Damien Hirst. Her most controversial work - a memorial to 65,000 Austrian Jews who died in the Holocaust - was unveiled in Vienna in 2000 amid heightened political tension. Much of her work focuses on casting hidden spaces, with the inside of a box as the inspiration for the 14,000 boxes which form her latest exhibit, Embankment, on display at Tate Modern, London, until the end of April.

[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

Choices

1.

PJ Harvey

We Float

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2.

The Pentangle

Light Flight

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3.

Jackson 5

Abc

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4.

Castaway's favourite

Keith Jarrett

The Köln Concert Part 1

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5.

Nick Cave

Where the Wild Roses Grow (with Kylie Minogue)

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6.

Charles-François Gounod

Ave Maria

Soloist: Cecilia Bartoli

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7.

Lionel Bart

Oliver

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8.

Johnny Cash

Would You Lay With Me (In A Field Of Stone)

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Book

A reference book on the natural history of the island

Luxury item

Ink, pen, paper and correction fluid

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