WHITNEY MCVEIGH

In 1998, she received a BA from the Edinburgh College of Art. Since the beginning of her career, she has explored the layering of time and the complexities of memories. In Hunting Song (2013), a site-specific installation in the context of the 55^th Venice Biennale, she created a fictional curiosity shop with an eclectic collection of objects from her personal archives interwoven with objects she found on the site of the exhibition, a former hospice for unmarried women dating back to the 16^th century. Her short-film Birth: Origins at the End of Life (2015), filmed at St Christopher’s Hospice, London, features a diverse group of women who reflect on birth, life and existence as they face their own death; it was recently juxtaposed in the context of the found-object installation Language of Memory (2015-2016). She has exhibited extensively and recent solo exhibitions include at Kettle’s Yard (2015), Cambridge; Summerhall Arts (2015-16), Edinburgh; and Hazard Gallery (2016), Johannesburg. She has participated in group exhibitions such as Glasstress (2013) and Hunting Song Gervasuti Foundation (2013), both Venice; Extinction Marathon, Serpentine Gallery (2014) and Drawing Room Biennial (2015), both London, and ARTinTRA (2016), Athens. She has held residencies at NY Arts (2007), Beijing; CASA (2008), San Agustin Mexico; David Krut Projects (2011), Johannesburg; All Visual Arts (2012), London; the Nirox Foundation (2016), Kromdraai, South Africa; and was a part-time Fellow in Creative Practice at the London College of Fashion (2014-2016). She was nominated for the Sovereign European Art Prize (2008).

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