deep dive (pause) uncoiling memory

Alberta Whittle

deep dive (pause) uncoiling memory

deep dive (pause) uncoiling memory is an installation of new work by award-winning artist Alberta Whittle. Spanning two rooms in this former boatyard, Alberta has created an environment containing works in tapestry, film and sculpture connected through a shared vocabulary of motifs and ideas. Through her rich symbolism, Alberta encourages us to slow down, in order that we may collectively consider the historic legacies and contemporary expressions of racism, colonialism and migration, and begin to think outside of these damaging frameworks.

The film, Lagareh – The Last Born, on display in the second space, talks openly about racism, violence and grief.

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 Alberta Whittle b. 1980 Bridgetown, Barbados. She lives and works in Glasgow.

Selected solo exhibitions and presentations include: The British Art Show 9 (2021-22), Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh (2021), Liverpool Biennale (2021), Art Night London (2021), Glasgow International (2021), Grand Union, Birmingham (2020) and Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee (2019). Selected group exhibitions include: Life Between islands Caribbean: British Art 1950s to Now, Tate Britain (2021-22), and those held at Kunstal Trondheim, Norway (2021), Gothenburg Biennale (2021), The Lisson Gallery, London (2021), MIMA Middlesborough (2021), Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada (2021), Eastside Projects, Birmingham (2020), Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh (2019) and the 13th Havana Biennial, Cuba (2019).

Forthcoming exhibitions include group shows at Fotografiska, New York; Hessel Museum of Art, New York, Moderna Museet Malmö, Sweden, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain and a solo exhibition as part of British Art Show 9, Plymouth. This full presentation will     return to Scotland and be exhibited with other works by Alberta at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, opening in spring 2023.

Alberta was awarded a Turner Bursary, the Frieze Artist Award and a Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award in 2020.