Rachel Whiteread is an influential contemporary English sculptor known for her concrete casts of domestic spaces, architecture, and objects. Whiteread’s sculptures are concerned with the negative space present between humans and the places they inhabit. “I make all this stuff in the studio, but I also work on these white elephants—like House or Untitled Monument—things that are incredibly ambitious, take an awful long time to do, involve a lot of controversy, an awful lot of people, and don't make any money particularly, but it's just because I need to make them,” she has said. Born on April 20, 1963 in Ilford, United Kingdom, Whiteread went on to study painting at Brighton Polytechnic and later sculpture ...