David Whittaker was born in Cornwall and is currently based in Newquay. He is self-taught, has exhibited widely and won the first prize at The National Open Art Competition in 2011.
In 2011 Whittaker was also an invited artist at ‘The Discerning Eye’ Exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London. He has also shown with The St Ives Society of Artists, The Lock Up, London, in The House of Fairytales at Millennium, in an NSA Exhibition at the Royal West of England Academy, at the Hyde Park Gallery, London and in 2005 he was selected to show at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Whittaker was elected a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists in 2009 and in 1998 he was listed in the ‘Dictionary of Arts in Britain since 1945’ by David Buckman.
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Born in 1964. He is self taught.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
A Bird In The Mammal House, Millennium, St Ives
2011
A Beautiful Kind of Certainty
2009
Brief Moment In The Exposure
2008
If This Life, Goldfish, Penzance
2001
Gallery Excalibur, Stressa, Italy
2000
Falmouth Art Gallery, Cornwall
1998
Open Studio, St Ives, Cornwall
1997
Open Studio, St Ives, Cornwall
1996
Open Studio, St Ives, Cornwall
1992
Hyde Park Gallery, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
Mixed Summer, Millennium, St Ives
London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, Islington
Mixed Winter, Millennium, St Ives
2011
The National Open (TOWRY First Prize Winner)
Minerva Theatre, Chichester
Pallant House, Chichester
The Discerning Eye (invited artist), Mall Galleries
London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, London
Mixed Winter, Millennium
The Lock Up III, Red Bull Studios, London
Unchartered Landscape, NSA at St Ives Society of Artists
2010
The House of Fairy Tales, Millennium, St. Ives
London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, Islington
2009
The Lock Up, London
Mixed Exhibition, Millennium
London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, Islington
NSA Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
Mixed Exhibition, Goldfish, Penzance
2008
Winter Exhibition, Millennium
London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, Islington
Mixed / No Theme, Goldfish, Penzance
Winter Exhibition, Goldfish, Penzance
Summer Exhibition, Goldfish, Penzance
2007
Winter Exhibition, Goldfish, Penzance
Move, Goldfish at Vyner Street, London
A Fine Line, Artonomy, Truro
2005
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Piccadilly, London
2004
The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
2003
Debut Show, Gallery One O Two, London
Inaugural St. Ives Festival Show, The Mariners Gallery, St. Ives
2002
Christmas Show, Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, Cornwall
2001
Show for Reuters, Britart, Brick Lane, London
2000
One Foot Two Show, Mafuji Gallery, London
1999
Hidden Art (collaboration of workshops and studios in London)
Millennium Exhibition, Mafuji Gallery, London
Summer Show, Wimbledon Art Group, London
Selected Artists, Raw Art Gallery, London
Gallery Show, New Millennium Gallery, St. Ives, Cornwall
1998
Summer Show, Highgate Fine Art, London
1994
Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, California, USA
1993
Gallery Show, Salthouse Gallery, St. Ives, Cornwall
PUBLICATIONS
2012
Bird In The Mammal House catalogue, published by Millennium
2011
A Beautiful Kind of Certainty catalogue, published by Millennium
2009
Brief Moment In The Exposure catalogue, published by Millennium
2008
If This Life catalogue, published by Goldfish, Penzance
2007
Move catalogue, published by Goldfish, Penzance
2006
Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945, David Buckman
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