Alberta Whittle

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Alberta Whittle is an artist, researcher and curator. She was a RAW Academie Fellow at RAW Material in Dakar in 2018 and is the Margaret Tait Award winner for 2018/9. She is a Committee Member at Transmission Gallery in Glasgow and a Board Member of SCAN (Scottish Creative Art Network).

Her creative practice is motivated by the desire to work collectively towards radical self-love. Informed by diasporic conversations, Alberta considers radical self-love and collective care key methods in battling anti-blackness. Her practice involves choreographing interactive installations, using film, sculpture and performance as site-specific artworks in public and private spaces.

Alberta has exhibited and performed in various solo and group shows, including at GoMA, Glasgow (2019), The City Arts Centre, Edinburgh (2019), The Showroom, London (2018), National Art Gallery of the Bahamas (2018), RAW Material, Dakar (2018), FADA Gallery, Johannesburg (2018), the Apartheid Museum, Johannesburg (2017), FRAMER FRAMED, Amsterdam (2015), Goethe On Main, Johannesburg (2015), at the Johannesburg Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, Venice (2015), and BOZAR, Brussels (2014), amongst others. The Contemporary Art Research Collection at Edinburgh College of Art recently purchased several of her works.

Over 2019, Alberta will be showing her work at the 13th Havana Biennale, Cuba, Pig Rock Bothy at the National Galleries of Scotland, (Edinburgh), displaced at The Travelling Gallery (various locations Scotland), UNFIX festival at the CCA, (Glasgow), The Imagined New at the University of Johannesburg (Johannesburg), Stalking the Image: Margaret Tait and her Legacy at GoMA (Glasgow), How flexible can we make the mouth at the DCA (Dundee), Without Tides, an invitation at Edinburgh Printmakers (Edinburgh) and Business as Usual at The Reid Gallery (Glasgow).

Alberta’s writing has been published in MAP magazine, Visual Culture in Britain, Visual Studies, Art South Africa and Critical Arts Academic Journal.