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Stand MP105Melbourne Art FairRoyal Exhibition BuildingCarlton, Victoria13 - 17 August, 2014

Littlewhitehead are children of the 80s, brought up on a diet of video nasties, computer games and the post-industrial landscape of socialist Glasgow. Their sculptures, drawings and video works are the product of an idiosyncratic and private dialogue. As a result, all of their work is steeped in their very own brand of humour, through which they manage to negate any particular ideological position, and instead try to foster reflection on many ontological and ideological absurdities.

Recent shows include Nothing Comes to Mind at Concordia, Enschede, the Netherlands, The Weak Sex, Kunstmuseum, Bern, a solo exhibition at Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland UK and Newspeak: British Art Now at the Saatchi Gallery in London. Their work is held in notable public and private collections across the world.

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Inner Refuge (2014)plaster, wood, screws, wire, tape, silicon rubber, synthetic hair, pins, shoes, socks, slacks, white shirt, sweater, school desk, chair, leather satchel, pencil, school notebook, found drawings, pencil130 x 72 x 69 cm

My Butcher (2011)found newspaper, knife, paint

Cam Girl Series (2013)charcoal on paper30 x 21 cm

After the Fall (2011)ashes from a burnt house in an abandoned Detroit neighbourhood, resin, record player (The record is a cast of Stevie Wonder’s ‘A Secret Life of Plants’)

Untitled (2013)charcoal on paper58 x 42 cm

Fist Slap (2013)charcoal on paper58 x 42 cm

Pig Whore (2013)charcoal on paper58 x 42 cm

Deadwood (2011)the ashes of artists monographs (Jackson Pollock, Alberto Giacometti , Andy Warhol, Yves Klein, Willem de Kooning, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Philip Guston, Barnett newman, Gustav Klimt, Claude Monet, Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Giorgio De Chirico, Henri Matisse, Piet Modrian, Paul Gauguin, Francis Bacon, Eva Hesse, Robert Rauschenberg, Georges Braque, Wassily Kandinsky, Frida Kahlo, Constantin Brancusi, Egon Schiele, Donald Judd, Mark Rothko, Rene Magritte, Stanley Spencer, Georgia O’Keeffe, Roy Lichtenstein, Edvard Munch, Man Ray, Lucio Fontana, Joseph Beuys, Barbara Hepworth, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Robert Mapplethorpe, Louise Bourgeois, Duane hanson, Keith Harring, Otto Dix), resin

Throbbing gristle (2013)model chihuahua20 x 17 x 13 cm

LITTLEWHITEHEAD

Littlewhitehead is Craig Little and Blake Whitehead. They live and work in and around and on top of Glasgow, UK.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2014 Inner Refuge, Innovators #1 / Linden / Melbourne Nothing Comes to Mind / Concordia / The Netherlands2013 Unfinished Business / Marine Contemporary / Los Angeles2012 The Cyclic Gate / Sumarria Lunn / London2011 Bad News / Marine Contemporary / Los Angeles Sumarria Lunn @ the London Art Fair / London2010 Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art / Sunderland The Gilt Hole Complex / Arcan Mellor / London2009 Black Smoke Machine Gun Club / Royal Standard / Liverpool The Fourth Wall / Bloc / Sheffield Playing Dog / Gimpel Fils / London So Many Fellows Find Themselves / K Gallery / Milan So This is Romance / Bunhouse Bandits / London2008 Nothing Ever Happens Here / Studio Warehouse / Glasgow

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2013 The Weak Sex / Kunstmuseum Bern / Bern Easy Does It Part III / Supercollider / Blackpool Easy Does It Part II / Aid & Abet / Cambridgea2012 Be A Man / Sumarria Lunn Gallery / London Easy Does It Part I / David Dale Gallery / Glasgow Art Paris with Helene Bailly / Paris Supermarket 2013 / Kulturhuset / Stockholm Santorini Biennale / Santorini / Greece The Momentarily Absurd / High House / Oxfordshire Mexico Arte Contemporary with TJ Boutling / Mexico City Tenancy 3 / Blackartprojects / Melbourne2011 Boundaries / Gazelli Art House @ C99 Art Project / London In Your Face / SHOWstudio / London 100 / Blackartprojects / Melbourne

2011 Six Degrees / Monks Gallery / Lincoln Art Platform with Marine Contemporary / Los Angeles Revenge of the Pleasure Principle / KT Contemporary / Dublin Air I Breath / Gazelli Art House / London Modern Frustrations / Sumarria Lunn / London Between Worlds / Field / Folkestone Triennial / Folkstone British Art Now / Museum of South Australia / Adelaide If these walls could talk / Charlie James Gallery / Los Angeles If these walls could talk / Marine / Los Angeles Modern British Sculpture / Gimpel Fils / London Smokefall / Tintype / London Art First Bologna with Gimpel Fils / Bologna2010 Prop / Departure Gallery / London Exteriority / Sumarria Lunn / London Figure Study / Gimpel Fils / London Space Made Live / Arthouse / Glasgow A Ticket For A Ticket / Trolley Books / London (performance) Newspeak: British Art Now / Saatchi Gallery / London Downstairs Review Part II / Gimpel Fils / London Arco Madrid (with Gimpel Fils) / Madrid2009 Newspeak: British Art Now / The Hermitage / St Petersburg Tales That Witness Madness / Elevator Gallery / London Alternative States / Gimpel Fils / London Grey Matter / Talbot Rice Gallery / Edinburgh Wild is the Wind / Wall / London2008 Bloomberg New Contemporaries / A Foundation / London

All images © littlewhiteheadInstallation views courtesy of Thijs de Lange, Marine Projects and David Marks

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