Artist Rachel Whiteread Was In Whitechapel Long Before The Hipster Olympics

After the artist (now a Turner Prize-winning sculptor) graduated from art school in the ’80s, she moved to London’s East End. “‘I remember calling my mum from a phone box outside,’ she says, her voice on the edge of laughter, as it often seems to be. ‘There was blood all over it. I thought: “Oh my God, where have I moved to?”‘