While her sculptures are often large-scale the drawings at the tate I feel provide a more personal, mobile counterpoint, although one might see them as preliminary sketches they are clearly works in themselves. I like how the works use texture and surface and begin to give an insight into how Whiteread thinks. For example Untitled (Double Mattress Yellow). This is painted on graph paper, and initially I thought it looked abit like a stale cracker. Yet upon closer examination you notice how the water colour socks into the papr and it begins to look like a stained mattress and thus perhaps a human trace. Yet what I found most interesting about this piece is how the ink traces bring the whole piece together, something I feel I will be able to incorporate into my own pieces, bringing a mixed media piece together.
On leaving the exhibition what I feel is essentail to i my opinion the success of her drawings is how they appear almost ghostly, using different opacities she successfully leaves an almost human trace upon the pieces. This not only makes her drawings different and thus interesting but it also makes them personal and for me this is what I like about them, they are essentially documentation of how as a sculpturer, Whiteread sees things.
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