Rachel Whiteread: 'The process of drawing is like writing a diary'

The name 'Rachel Whitread' is synonymous with inverse castings of buildings and household objects - she first came to prominence with House, the negative concrete cast of an entire Victorian house in East London, which won her the Turner Prize in 1993, and her latest work in London, Embankment, a commission for Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, comprised 14,000 white polyethylene casts of cardboard boxes. But, as the artist explains, 'my drawings are very much part of my thinking process. I find it quite a therapeutic process, and it’s something I’ve done for the past twenty years.'

Rachel Whiteread: Drawings, on tour from the Hammer Museum and currently show at Tate Britain (until 16 January 2011), is the first major exhibition to bring together Whiteread's works on paper. Together with a selection of found objects - including a cast of Peter Seller's nose - they offer an intimate into the creative processes behind her work.

Follow the link to Whiteread's interview with Tate Etc.