Gillian Wearing

• Gillian Wearing is an English conceptual artist, well-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.
• In her piece Signs that say what you want them to say and not Signs that say what someone else wants you to say (1992-1993), Wearing made a series of portraits where she approaches strangers that she encounters on the street and asks them to write what they are thinking about on a white sheet of paper.
• These represent the people honestly, which relates to my theme as my plan is to try and represent their fears honestly.

• I particularly like this last image because of the way the subject 'pops' from the background; it almost seems as if he is photoshopped in because of the depth of field blurring and lighting.