British artist about to get major retrospective at Tate Britain says public art is often ill-conceived and works should suit locations
Too many public sculptures are examples of “plop art” – works dropped into an apparently random site and hardly noticed – according to artist Rachel Whiteread.
The Turner prize winner has been responsible for a number of public works around the world, including a cast of the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square and the Holocaust monument in Vienna.