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ABOUT :
David Kim Whittaker artworks consist of mixed media paintings on canvas or panel, painted studies incorporating collage and occasional assemblage ‘still life / portrait’ sculptures and more recently written verse and sound installation. His artworks are a harmonised conflict of delicate figurative and expressive abstract elements. Most of Whittaker’s paintings are based upon a metaphysical interpretation of the human head. The portraits are ambiguous, with the ambitious aim of representing the totality of the human condition, both the universal alongside the personal. The works often juggle dual states of inner and outer calm and conflict, offering a glimpse of strength and fragility, the conscious and the subconscious, the masculine and the feminine. These universal states of conflict clearly identifiable in Whittaker's works are arguably reinforced by Whittaker’s ‘gender dysphoria’ and the personal struggle with a condition that he/she has learned to live with through painting and the endeavour of expressing something bigger than oneself...
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David Kim Whittaker is a British contemporary artist born in Cornwall in 1964 where he still resides. Exhibitions have been held internationally, notably including a solo exhibition at the prestigious Fondazione Mudima in Milan in 2017 curated by Joseph Clarke. Works are in numerous museum collections, art foundations and international private collections. Whittaker was further acknowledged in 2011 as the recipient of the Towry Award (First Prize) at the National Open Art Competition in the UK.
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Mabon’ is the first in an ongoing series of international mixed online exhibitions following this rhythm of the seasons, known as ‘the wheel of the year’. This ‘calendar’ provides a cue for the duration of each show, and inevitably flavours the selection of works presented…
Anima Mundi Charity Print Donations to Funding Neuro in Memory of Little Daisy Brooks and Ethan Cass
The donation has been made in the loving and lasting memory of Daisy Brooks from Bures, Essex and Ethan Cass from Pendeen in Cornwall who tragically lost their lives to DIPG…
Anima Mundi’s major online international mixed exhibition featuring the work of 40 international artists, is now available to view on our website alongside the online catalogue, images, texts and video…
Anima Mundi are delighted to launch ‘Beyond Ourselves’ a major mixed online exhibition featuring 39 international artists.
David Kim Whittaker’s latest body of work titled ‘Pearls to the Peachy Fire’ was exhibited in Monte Carlo throughout September 2019. The profound and weighty thematic content of this body of work was highlighted all the more by the location of the exhibition, in the heart of the principality of Monaco, the playground of the rich, powerful and privileged.
Anima Mundi is proud to present ‘Protected by Alarms’ which takes place in the empty and derelict, Vicarage Flats in St. Ives. The exhibition provides an eclectic response to the confused and challenging backdrop of this moment in time.
David Kim Whittaker's 'The Fear and the Stable' opened on 6th September on Maddison Avenue. It is Whittaker's first solo exhibition in NYC. The exhibition has been co-ordinated by Joseph Clarke in association with Anima-Mundi.
David Whittaker's monumental painting 'Self Portrait Four, Jewel Box' achieved a record price at Phillips 20th Century and Contemporary Auction
David Kim Whittaker's major solo exhibition and monograph launched at Fondazione Mudima in Milan
Anima-Mundi curate ‘From Silence’ at Herrick Gallery, Mayfair