Stuart Whipps : Isle of Slingers

9 Jul-18 Sep 2016

Overview

Isle of Slingers draws together multiple strands from the work of the British artist Stuart Whipps in his largest, most comprehensive exhibition to date. Whipps trained as a photographer and while his work now ranges more widely, the processes and history of photography underpin much of his thinking. While most of the works presented have been newly made for the exhibition, they grow out of ongoing research that has informed the artist’s work over the last ten years. It is the first time that these disparate narratives will be brought together for a single exhibition and includes work made around a concrete sculpture garden in Mexico, the remnants of the Scottish oil industry, a ballet company from 1933 and the theft of flowers from a garden in North Wales.