Exhibitions

Traces 2008

Unexpected Perspectives 2002

Michael Whittington’s black and white photographs are deliberately mysterious. These multiple and long exposures explore the cameras ability to record figures in a single frame as they move through spaces. In this series of photographs Whittington responds to that notorious Duchamp painting, ‘Nude descending a staircase No.2’

Registrations 2002

In the symbolic journey through interior spaces undertaken by the lone, isolated figure of registrations, artist Michael Whittington explores the gap in perception between the camera lens and the human eye. With a range of reference points from De Chirico to film noir, Whittington’s moody black and white images capture movement in space and time, utilizing the formal capacities of the lens made image to evoke a shadowy world of endless staircases, darkened corridors and blinding sunlit windows.

Projections 2003

Through piecing together fragments of objects from child hood toys, Whittington uses blurry photography to suggest fantasy worlds that are themselves nostalgic, yet, nightmarish at the same time.

Shapeshifters 2003

Michael used long exposures to transform household objects into unique colourful forms where subject matter hovers somewhere between a real physical representation and a hyper-abstracted view of reality.