Mark Wallinger

Mark Wallinger has generously produced The White Horse, 2007/2024, a limited edition artwork to coincide with the exhibition, Stubbs and Wallinger: The Horse in Art, Tate Britain, 24 June 2024 - 6 July 2025. The exhibition marks 300 years since the birth of the celebrated horse painter George Stubbs and pairs his work with a contemporary horse painting by Mark Wallinger.

Wallinger’s limited edition for Tate presents his winning proposal for the Ebbsfleet Landmark Project for Kent, which was awarded in 2009 and nicknamed the ‘Angel of the South’. In his proposal, a vast white stallion, twenty-five times life-size, stands in the landscape of the Thames Estuary in Swanscombe, part of the out-of-town commuter belt. Wallinger says: ‘The site is where the chalk of the North Downs goes into the Thames… I was thinking throughfares, Watling Street, pilgrims, all the immigrants and travellers who had come and gone to London.’ Historically, the Ebbsfleet area is where Hengist and Horsa, the Saxon invaders, landed and entered the UK. The white horse was adopted as a symbol of Kent after the emblem of Horsa. Wallinger’s horse is a thoroughbred wearing a head collar and is posed in a style which is traditional for racing catalogues and stud books. This pose can be seen in many of Stubbs’ paintings.

• Artist Mark Wallinger
• Artwork The White Horse, 2007/2024
• Exhibition Stubbs and Wallinger: The Horse in Art
• Dimensions 50 x 70 cm
• Material Digital pigment print on Somerset Photo paper
• Edition Limited edition of 50, signed and numbered by the artist

Mark Wallinger (b.1959, Chigwell, Essex, UK) is one of Britain’s leading contemporary artists, working across painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, film, performance and public commissions. Wallinger’s Ecce Homo, 1999-2000, was the first work to occupy the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square and was later shown at the Venice Biennale where Wallinger represented Great Britain in 2001. He was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1995 and won in 2007. His work Labyrinth, 2013, is a major permanent installation for Art on the Underground, commissioned to celebrate 150 years of the London Underground.
br> Selected solo exhibitions include Langmatt Museum, Baden, Switzerland (2022); 2018 Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, UK (2018); Museum De Pont, Tilburg, The Netherlands (2011); Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City (2005); Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany (2004); Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK (2000); Vienna Secession, Vienna, Austria (2000); Museum for Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland (1999); Palais Des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium (1999) and Serpentine Gallery, London, UK (1995). His work is included in the collections of many leading international museums including Tate, MoMA New York, and Centre Pompidou Paris. He is an Honorary Fellow of Goldsmiths College and of the London Institute, and an Honorary Doctor of The University of Central England, Birmingham, UK. Wallinger lives and works in London, UK.