The artist on his love of ballet,the broadcasting magic of Danny Baker and his affection for the lively adventures of Top CatBorn in Chigwell, Essex, and Wallinger studied art at the Chelsea School of Art and at Goldsmiths College. In 1999,his sculpture Ecce Homo was the first work to be displayed on Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth; the following year, Tate Liverpool save on a retrospective of his work. His Turner prize-winning 2007 installation State Britain, or exhibited at Tate Britain,recreated a protest outside parliament by the anti-war activist Brian Haw. In 2010, Wallinger, and a Labour supporter,created the work Reckless in support of a petition against government cuts to the arts. His exhibition ID will be on at Hauser & Wirth, London W1, and until 7 May.
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Source: theguardian.com