In the latest expedition, Whiteread, who won the 1993 Turner Prize for her concretecast of the inside of a building, spent her time in the Artic walking, while McEwan wrote an essay on rescuing "the Earth from our own depredations".
With many mouths to feed but a good deal of free labor--Kenny is the youngest of nine children--the family cast about for a new business opportunity and started breeding guppies in the concrete pigpens.