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Elaine Whittaker
Inspired by an aesthetic of life in which art, science, medicine and ecology intersect, Elaine Whittaker’s transdisciplinary works consider biology as contemporary art practice. Her artworks explore the forces that make us human, from the foundational processes and materials needed to form an organism, to the microscopic world of cellular ecologies. Her practice is principally based in installation, and includes sculpture, painting, digital imagery and sound.
Recent works have centred on the aesthetics of disaster, the fear of pandemics, and on the body as a site of infection reflecting narratives and elements of anxiety that are found in popular culture, scientific research, and personal experience. Her art has been shown in solo and group exhibits, nationally and internationally, encompassing themes of water, blood, biotechnology, the genome, AIDS, cloning, climate change and infectious disease. These include, among others, Ontario Science Centre (Toronto, Canada), Science Gallery (Dublin, Ireland), ARC Gallery (Chicago, USA), Plug In Institute for Contemporary Art (Winnipeg, Canada), and the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit (US).
Whittaker has been an invited participant in residencies, workshops and festivals on science, art and medicine, and a featured artist on websites such as Sciengage, MEDinART, and Photomediations Machine. Artworks have also appeared in literary, academic, and medical periodicals. She is a recipient of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council, and holds a BFA (York University, Toronto), Art Diploma (Toronto School of Art), and BA (Carleton University, Ottawa).
In the fall of 2015 her work will be profiled in a new book by William Myers, entitled BioArt: Altered Realities, published by Thames & Hudson.
For the artist’s website and blogs, please visit:
www.etwhittaker.com
www.elainetw.blogspot.com
www.elainetwhittaker.tumblr.com
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