Gillian Wearing

Gillian Wearing makes photographs, films and sculpture about how people present themselves and what they keep hidden, often using masks and confession. She studied at Chelsea School of Art and Goldsmiths, graduating in 1990. She won the Turner Prize in 1997, partly for 60 Minutes Silence, a video of police officers posing so still it looks like a photograph. Her other works include Signs that say what you want them to say, A Real Birmingham Family and the statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square. She was elected a Royal Academician in 2007, made a CBE in 2019 and lives and works in London.