Slade School of Art

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Remembering Phyllida Barlow, one of the most significant, and original, British artists of recent years

The sculptor, erudite and irreverent, was known for the power and scale of her site-specific installations

Phyllida Barlow—British sculptor who found global fame after retiring from teaching—has died, aged 78

Artist who taught Rachel Whiteread and Tacita Dean during a decades-long career at London's Slade School of Art, won critical recognition in her mid-sixties for her massive, site-specific installations

Phyllida Barlow: the artist working with the Tate collection to interrogate the essential nature of sculpture

Since retiring from teaching at the Slade school after 40 years, the sculptor has found her large, site-specific works in great demand—not least at Tate Britain