Mark Wallinger

Title: Sleeper

Year: 2004

Media: Digital print ed. 56/200

Size: 29 x 37 cm

About the work: Sleeper is a photograph taken from my performance, Sleeper at the queue Nationalgalerie in Berlin which took place over 10 successive nights October 2004.

Bio: Mark Wallinger is one of the Uk’s leading contemporary artists. Having previously been nominated for the Turner Prize 1995, he won in 2007 for his installation ‘State Britain’. His work ‘Ecce Homo’ (1999-2000) was the first piece to occupy the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square. He represented the Uk at the Venice Biennale in 2001. ‘Labrynth’ (2013, a major and permanent commission for Art on the Underground, was created to celebrate 150 years of the London Underground. In 2018 the permanent work ‘Writ in Water’ was realised for the National Trust to celebrate Magna Carta at Runnymede, and ‘The World Turned Upside Down’ was unveiled in 2019 for the London School of Economics.