The White Horse Stalled At The Gate

Model of the sculpture The White Horse

Sitting in a London studio among remnants of past projects the topic arises to make a 170-foot high White horse sculpture in Kent County but the project is on hold as they are trying to raise the £12 million to make the sculpture. “It was ‘hooray,’ and then the credit crunch happened,” Wallinger says. Asked if he thinks whether The Whit Horse will reach the finishing post. At first he hesitates then says I’m a half-full, half-empty glass it varies. I would hope it would, but I’m prepared for disappointment.”

Even though he is a very respected painter, Wallinger much prefers to work in mediums that accepts the viewer interaction. And his sometimes outlandish art reflects political news, religious views and historical preoccupations. For Sleeper he spent ten nights in a BEAR suit prowling around Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie and in the Turner Prize for State Britain, a re-creation of an antiwar campaigner’s 141-foot-long protest camp outside London’s Houses of Parliament.