Robin Whitehead - A Collage

An exhibition of collages and photographs featuring the collaborative work of
Rosetta and Robin Whitehead

6th - 31st October 2011

Private views will be held on:
Thursday October 6th  6.30 - 8.30pm
Sunday October 9th   12.00 - 3.00pm
Tuesday October 11th  6.30 - 8.30pm

Viewing by appointment at other times.

For further information contact Jonathan Ross: Phone 020 7370 2239, or by e-mail.

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The artist and film-maker Robin Whitehead (1982-2010) was a fierce talent in the process of building an extraordinarily original body of work that was tragically curtailed by her untimely death at the age of twenty-seven. This new exhibition of her collages and photography - vivid, sexually charged, highly personal, at times shocking - is a showcase for the full genius of her evolving vision.

Robin worked for some years as an editor in the film business before beginning to make her own films, photography and art. She worked in a number of different media, focusing mainly on documentary, fine art and fashion photography, and collage.

The style of her collages may be placed in an artistic tradition that includes the artists Niki de Saint Phalle, Penny Slinger, Frida Kahlo and Max  Ernst. Her photography (much of it produced in collaboration with her sister, Rosetta Whitehead) is an eerie melding of innocence, sex and the supernatural, with an incipient, menacing darkness always present. Her work as a whole reflects a fractured psychology that is nonetheless lucid and raw in its self-analysis, often painful, visually striking, unsettling.