Gillian Wearing

: March 10, 2024
: Photographer

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Date Of Birth	Dec 10, 1963(1963-12-10)
Age	61
Country	United Kingdom
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Gillian Wearing Biography

Birthday	Dec 10
Birth Year	1963
Place Of Birth	England

Gillian Wearing is one of the most popular and richest Photographer who was born on December 10, 1963 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. As of June 1, 2023, Gillian has a net worth approximately $5 Million. Wearing is known for her method of documentation of everyday life through photography and video, concerning individual identity within the private and the public spaces, where Wearing blurs the line between reality and fiction. John Slyce has described Wearing’s method of representation as “frame[ing] herself as she frames the other”. Her work in photography and video at first appear like most other journalistic methods of documentation seen in television and documentaries, but after further examination it becomes apparent that they do not conform to mass-media conventions. Wearing’s work reveals that the camera does not take a neutral stance towards its object, but is rather a powerful mass-media organ that breaks down the divide between public and private. In the early 1990s, Wearing began putting together photography exhibitions where she worked with strangers. There is a re-occurring pattern in her work where she plays and mocks the idea of the artist as anthropologist, but her anthropological activities do not focus on discovering a foreign culture but instead challenges what we thought we already knew. Wearing sees that Anthropology “attempts to compress human subjectivity into scientific objectivity”. As John Slyce puts it: “Gillian Wearing does not suffer the indignity of speaking for others.”. How Wearing approaches her subjects then is by inviting the individual to include their own articulation of thought into the picture within the space that she has provided, rather than an objective documentation. In an interview with Donna De Salvo, Wearing states:

Wearing was born in 1963 in Birmingham, England. She attended Dartmouth High School in Great Barr, Birmingham. She moved to Chelsea, London to study art at the Chelsea School of Art and squatted in Oval Mansions—in 1987 she attained a bachelor of technology degree in art and design. In 1990 she attained a BFA from Goldsmiths, University of London.

In the late 1990s, Wearing made a three-channel video called Drunk (1997-1999), for which she filmed a group of street drinkers who she had got to know outside her studio against the backdrop of a white photographic backdrop. The drinkers are shown in different scenes individually and in groups. They stagger around, fall over, bicker, fight, sleep and in the end one of the men stands against the backdrop and urinates.

In the early 1990s, Wearing started putting together photography exhibitions that were based around the idea of photographing anonymous strangers in the street who she had asked to hold up a piece of paper with a message on it. Of these “confessional” pieces, Wearing stated,

Gillian Wearing Net Worth

Net Worth	$5 Million
Source Of Income	Photographer
House	Living in own house.

Gillian is one of the richest Photographer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Gillian Wearing 's net worth $5 Million.

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Gillian Wearing Husband

According to our records, Gillian Wearing married to Michael Landy. As of January 12, 2023, Gillian Wearing’s is not dating anyone.

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Gillian Ranked on the list of most popular Photographer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Gillian Wearing celebrates birthday on December 10 of every year.

What inspired Gillian Wearing?

Gillian Wearing RA (b. Her work, initially inspired by fly on the wall documentaries such as Michael Apted’s Up series , is characterised by an engagement with the lives of others and her own family history; she uses photography, video and a range of devices to reveal personal details.

What was Gillian Wearing 1993 exhibition all about?

City Racing in London hosted her first solo exhibition in 1993. In her photographs and videos, Wearing records the confessions and interactions of ordinary people she befriends through chance encounters.