† David Kim Whittaker (British b.1964) Vocal Through Landsca...

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† David Kim Whittaker (British b.1964) Vocal Through Landscape tryptich, signed, dated, titled and dedicated 'LASTING VOCAL FOR LIZ FRASER. 2010./Whittaker 2010/ VOCAL THROUGH LANDSCAPE. FOR ELIZABETH FRASER (2010-2015)' (on the backboard) pencil, china marker, collage and acrylic on card framed and glazed, overall size 46 x 131 cm Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity from Beautiful Crime Gallery. Provenance With Beautiful Crime Gallery, London. David Kim Whittaker is a British painter born in 1964 in Cornwall, where they still reside. A self-taught artist, most of Whittaker's paintings are based on an interpretation of the human head and its metaphysical core. Whittaker's portraits are ambiguous, with the aim to represent 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 they have learned to live with through the endeavour of expressing something bigger than oneself through painting. The artist 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.