Artist research - gillian wearing

Gillian Wearing is an artist whose work I have been inspired by for a long time, I have always been interested in the way that she works with other individuals and displays them within her images. One of her most poignant projects that I was inspired by for this project 'These Four Walls' was ‘Signs that say what you want them to say and not signs that say what someone else wants you to say’. I like the idea of using signs within her images as a way of expressing the thoughts and feelings of the model to the viewer, usually by using just one word or a sentence, this allows the viewer to connect with the model on a personal level, especially when taking into account that each piece of text has been hand written by the individual being photographed.