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Rachel Whiteread – House

A limited edition print of an original artwork created for Migrate Art.

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Breaking Barriers

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Artist Rachel Whiteread
Title House
Year 2023
Medium Hand-finished archival pigment print on Aquarelle paper
Dimensions 23.5 × 18 cm
Edition 75, signed and numbered by the artist
Price £1,000 (excluding VAT)
Donation to Breaking Barriers £750 per sale (75% of sale price, excluding VAT)

Framing: Framing is available. Contact [email protected] for details.

 

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About House

In 2016 the Calais Jungle, once home to 10,000 refugees, was demolished. Amid the debris of destroyed shelters and scattered belongings, Migrate Art founder, Simon Butler, came across a pile of broken crayons and colouring pencils. Remnants of a school that had stood there.

Having previously volunteered in the camp, the scene struck Simon deeply. He collected the pencils and crayons and brought them back to London, where he invited leading artists to create new works with them.

Rachel Whiteread not only used, but embedded, these broken pencils in her creation for this project: ‘House’.

Whiteread’s original artwork was auctioned to raise funds for Migrate Art’s charity partners. Seventy-five signed prints were also produced, allowing more people to own a remarkable piece of art that speaks to home, memory, and what is left behind.


About Rachel Whiteread

Rachel Whiteread is one of Britain’s leading contemporary artists and sculptors, known for casting the “negative space” in and around everyday objects and architecture. Her practice explores memory, absence, and the emotional weight of the spaces we inhabit.

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