Alberta Whittle Explained

Alberta Whittle
Birth Place:Bridgetown, Barbados
Education:Glasgow School of Art, Edinburgh College of Art
Awards:Margaret Tait Award in 2018; Frieze Artist Award, 2020; recipient of Turner Prize bursary, 2020

Alberta Whittle (born 1980, Bridgetown, Barbados) is a Barbadian-Scottish multidisciplinary artist who works across media: film, sculpture, print, installation and performance.[1] She lives and works in Glasgow.[2] She was the winner of the Margaret Tait Award in 2018,[3] winner of the Frieze Artist Award in 2020,[4] received a Turner Prize bursary, also in 2020,[5] and represented Scotland at the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in 2022.[6]

Life and education

Whittle was born and grew up in Barbados, moving to Birmingham as a teenager, and later to Scotland to study.[7] She gained an MFA from Glasgow School of Art in 2011 and she is undertaking a PhD at Edinburgh College of Art. She is a research associate at the Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre, situated at the University of Johannesburg.[8]

Work

Alberta Whittle's work is concerned with questioning how history and society are constructed in the Western world. Her practice takes on the legacies of colonialism and slavery, and reflects upon black oppression and the way in which the racialised black body can carry markers of such oppression that may play out in an individual's mental or physical health.[2] Her work is also concerned with environmental issues such as the climate crisis.[7]

Whittle talks about her move to the UK from the Caribbean as something that, for her, drew attention to the inequalities in the way in which history is captured and told by different nations. She says: 'I was really quite shocked, moving to the UK, going to school in Birmingham, and living and studying in Scotland, by how there was an acute absence of conversation or acknowledgement in terms of these intricate and uneasy relationships between Europe and the Americas, or Asia, or Africa. [...] The privilege in avoiding these histories is something I found shocking and, I guess, hurtful. [...] That level of inattention definitely galvanises so much of my work.'

Selected exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Collections

Alberta Whittle's work is part of the following collections:

Awards

Notes and References

  1. Book: Parker, Rianna Jade . A brief history of Black British art . 2021 . 978-1-84976-756-9 . London . 152 . 1237252164.
  2. Web site: Alberta Whittle. 2021-01-29. Dundee Contemporary Arts. en.
  3. Web site: Margaret Tait Award & Residency. 2021-01-29. LUX Scotland. en-GB.
  4. Web site: Alberta Whittle wins Frieze Artist Award 2020 Frieze. 2021-01-29. www.frieze.com. en.
  5. Web site: 2020-07-02. Tate Britain announces recipients of £10,000 Turner bursaries. 2021-01-29. the Guardian. en.
  6. Web site: Alberta Whittle to represent Scotland at 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, 2022. 2021-01-29. Scotland + Venice. en-GB.
  7. Web site: McNay. Anna. Alberta Whittle – interview: 'No one can find Barbados on a map, whereas everyone can find the UK. That level of inattention galvanises so much of my work '. 2021-02-02. www.studiointernational.com.
  8. Web site: Alberta Whittle. 2021-02-01. Forma. en.
  9. Web site: Alberta Whittle: Business as Usual. 2021-02-02. en-GB.
  10. Web site: RESET: Alberta Whittle – Jupiter Artland. 2021-10-06. en-US.
  11. Web site: Simpson . Veronica . Alberta Whittle: Deep Dive (Pause) Uncoiling Memory – Venice Biennale 2022 . 2022-10-12 . www.studiointernational.com . en.
  12. Web site: WHERE WE'RE AT!. 2021-02-02. BOZAR. en. 12 April 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210412155237/https://www.bozar.be/en/activities/4964-where-we-re-at. dead.
  13. Web site: 2015-04-28. The Johannesburg Pavilion is a program of contemporary African film and live performance that will travel to Venice during the first two weeks of the 56th Venice Biennale.. 2021-02-02. Biennial Foundation. en-US.
  14. Web site: Exhibition: Embodied Spaces. 2021-02-02. Framer Framed. en-EN.
  15. Web site: 2018-02-27. Gallery Of Modern Art (GoMA) GlasgowINNER CITY // GALLERY 3 // 16 February – 11 November 2018. 2021-02-02. Gallery Of Modern Art (GoMA) Glasgow. en-US.
  16. Web site: The Showroom there's something in the conversation that is more interesting than the finality of (a title). 2021-02-02. www.theshowroom.org.
  17. Web site: New exhibition at Glasgow's GoMA celebrates life and work of visionary Scots filmmaker Margaret Tait. 2021-02-02. Glasgow Life. en.
  18. Web site: 2019-04-26. Alberta Whittle and Emilio Bianchic. 2021-02-01. MAP Magazine. en-GB.
  19. Web site: ivetteromero. 2019-03-24. 13th Havana Biennial. 2021-02-02. Repeating Islands. en.
  20. Web site: Art reviews: The Phillip A Bruno Collection Street Level Open 2009 Alberta Whittle & Hardeep Pandhal. 2021-02-01. www.scotsman.com. en.
  21. Web site: Edinburgh Printmakers. 2021-02-01. Edinburgh Printmakers. en-GB.
  22. Web site: Sonia Boyce: In the Castle of My Skin. 2021-02-02. Eastside Projects. en-GB.
  23. Web site: Here Be Dragons. 2021-02-02. C Ø P P E R F I E L D. en.
  24. Web site: Alberta Whittle Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art. 2021-10-06. www.biennial.com. en.
  25. Web site: 2021-05-24. Life Support: Forms of Care in Art and Activism. 2021-10-06. Glasgow Women's Library. en-US.
  26. Web site: Alberta Whittle. 2021-02-01. C Ø P P E R F I E L D. en.
  27. Web site: Whittle, Alberta Arts Council Collection. 2021-02-01. www.artscouncilcollection.org.uk.
  28. Web site: 2019-05-09. Alberta Whittle. 2021-02-01. Studio Pavilion. en-GB.
  29. Web site: Henry Moore Foundation awards £60,000 in rapid-response to artists across the UK amid the Covid-19 pandemic. 2021-02-02. Henry Moore Foundation. en. 11 February 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210211073856/http://www.henry-moore.org/press-office/press-release/2020/07/31/artist-award-scheme. dead.

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