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Mark Wallinger is a British artist born on 25 May 1959 in Chigwell, Essex. He trained at the Chelsea School of Art and gained an MA from Goldsmiths, University of London, graduating in 1985.

Having previously been nominated for the Turner Prize in 1995, he won in 2007 for his installation State Britain. His work Ecce Homo (1999–2000) was the first piece to occupy the empty Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square. He represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2001. His piece Labyrinth (2013), a permanent commission for Art on the Underground, was created to celebrate 150 years of the London Underground. In 2018, the permanent work Writ in Water was realized for the National Trust to celebrate where Magna Carta was signed at Runnymede.

His work has been lauded amongst some of the most significant of the last 30 years, fusing the mythological, political and the every day to produce profound work that questions identity and the social and political power structures that guide us.