Editing Rachel Whiteread (section)

==Early life and education==
Whiteread was born in 1963 in Ilford, Essex.<ref>Birth registered in Ilford Registration District in the second quarter of 1963.</ref><ref name=Wroe2013>{{cite news |last=Wroe |first=Richard |title=Rachel Whiteread: a life in art |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/apr/06/rachel-whiteread-life-in-art |newspaper=The Guardian |date=5 April 2013}}</ref> Her mother, Patricia Whiteread (''née'' Lancaster), who was also an artist, died in 2003 at the age of 72.<ref>Death registered in Tower Hamlets Registration District in December 2003.</ref> Her father, Thomas Whiteread, was a geography teacher, [[polytechnic (United Kingdom)|polytechnic]] [[Academic administration|administrator]] and lifelong supporter of the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]], who died when Whiteread was studying at art school in 1988.<ref>Death registered in Islington Registration District in September 1988.</ref> She is the third of three sisters – the older two being [[identical twins]].<ref name=Wroe2013 />

She took a workshop on casting with the sculptor [[Richard Wilson (sculptor)|Richard Wilson]] and began to realize the possibilities in casting objects.<ref name=Wroe2013 /> She was briefly at the [[Cyprus College of Art]]. From 1985 to 1987 she studied sculpture at [[Slade School of Art]], [[University College, London]], where she was taught by [[Phyllida Barlow]], graduating with an MA in 1987.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/may/09/bish-bash-bosh-how-phyllida-barlow-conquered-the-art-world-at-73|title=Bish-bash-bosh: how Phyllida Barlow conquered the art world at 73|last=Higgins|first=Charlotte|date=2017-05-09|work=The Guardian|access-date=2019-10-05|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref name=Wroe2013 /> Whiteread worked as an invigilator at the [[Serpentine Gallery]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://1995-2015.undo.net/it/mostra/13319|title=Turpentine|website=Studio Voltaire|access-date=2018-03-06}}</ref>

For a time she worked in [[Highgate Cemetery]] fixing lids back onto time-damaged coffins. She began to exhibit in 1987, with her first solo exhibition coming in 1988.<ref name="Zelevansky1994">{{cite book|last=Zelevansky|first=Lynn |title=Sense and Sensibility: Women Artists and Minimalism in the Nineties |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=61Cj8ov1YzYC&pg=PA26|year=1994|publisher=The Museum of Modern Art|isbn=978-0-8109-6131-9|pages=26–29}}</ref> She lives and works in a former synagogue in east London with long-term partner and fellow sculptor Marcus Taylor. They have two sons.<ref name=Barber2005>{{cite news |last=Barber |first=Lynn |title=Boxing clever |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2005/oct/16/art1 |newspaper=The Observer |location=London |date=15 October 2005}}</ref><ref name=Barber2001 />