David Kim Whittaker - New Now London Wednesday, December 6, 2023 | Phillips
  • Cornish-born David Kim Whittaker is a multidisciplinary artist, using traditional painting in conjunction with collage, written prose, and experimental sound installations as a means of exploring and disrupting conventional notions of gender and identity. Whittaker’s work ranges from the figurative to abstract, and normally focuses on studies of the human head – a motif used by the artist to express their ongoing relationship with gender dysphoria, and the internal depths of the human psyche more generally. This simultaneous presentation of the physical and emotional reveal to the viewer ‘dual states of inner and outer calm and conflict’.i The artist employs a juxtaposition of broad, gestural brushstrokes and flashes of utopian visions to create a body of charged, emotionally dynamic works. 

     

    David Kim Whittaker has held numerous international solo exhibitions, including at the prestigious Fondazione Mudima in 2017. Represented by Opera Gallery, they have also received critical acclaim in the form of the Towry Award and inclusion in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.

     

     

    i Opera Gallery, ‘David Kim Whittaker’, online.

    • Provenance

      Opera Gallery, Monaco
      Acquired from the above by the present owner

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signed, signed with the artist's initials, titled and dated '"WELCOME TO THE BANK OF COLLATERAL HEARTS" Whittaker DW 2015' on the reverse
oil, acrylic, China marker and paper collage on panel, in artist's frame
126.3 x 126.3 cm (49 3/4 x 49 3/4 in.)
Executed in 2015.

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Estimate
£10,000 - 15,000 ‡♠

Sold for £8,890

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London Auction 6 December 2023