Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art
 

Alberta Whittle

A large screen on the back of a truck shows text overlaid on archival images. The text reads 'we persist'
Alberta Whittle, business as usual: hostile environment (a remix), 2021
Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Glasgow International 2021
Image: Ian Georgeson
A large screen on the back of a truck shows animated NHS workers
Alberta Whittle, business as usual: hostile environment (a remix), 2021
Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Glasgow International 2021
Image: Ian Georgeson
an abstract design with bubble text reads 'business as usual: hostile environment'
Alberta Whittle and Christian Noelle Charles, business as usual: hostile environment [design identity], 2021

a film still showing an archival image of people on a boat and an image of the sea
Alberta Whittle, business as usual: hostile environment, 2021
Production Still, Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Glasgow International 2021
Courtesy the artist
a film still of a brown eye with text overlay that reads 'respectability will not save you'
Alberta Whittle, business as usual: hostile environment [production still], 2021
Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Glasgow International 2021
Courtesy the artist
Film still of an adult and child looking out of a boat window
Alberta Whittle, business as usual: hostile environment [production still], 2021
Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Glasgow International 2021
Courtesy the artist
Two people with long brown hair stand in the wind one is holding a paper cup and is smiling
Alberta Whittle, business as usual: hostile environment [production still], 2021
Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Glasgow International 2021
Courtesy the artist
a film still showing an archival image of people on a boat and an image of the sea
Alberta Whittle, business as usual: hostile environment, 2021
Production Still, Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Glasgow International 2021
Courtesy the artist
Graphic with the wording 'Excavating Beginners and Move Like Water', in pink and purple over a blue background
Alberta Whittle, business as usual : hostile environment, 2021
Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Glasgow International 2021
Film Still : Awuor Onyango, from the series Memoritiual (2021)
Sekai Machche, Awuor Onyango, Alberta Whittle, Panel Discussion 2021
GI online, Glasgow International 2021
film still, half statue of a person in action about to kick a ball
Mike Philips, Keith Piper, Alberta Whittle Genome Chronicles screening and discussion 2021
GI online, Glasgow International 2021
Image: courtesy of John Akomfrah and LUX, London
A collaged photograph, in the centre is a woman with her eyes closed, she appears tranquil. Surrounding her is varied shapes, colours, and flowers.
Alberta Whittle, Where the Tide Greets Memory, 2023 Digital collage on brushed aluminium Courtesy the artist and The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd

Photograph: National Galleries of Scotland

Projects

  • 2021
    Alberta Whittle
    business as usual: hostile environment
    Glasgow Sculpture Studios
    A large screen on the back of a truck shows text overlaid on archival images. The text reads 'we persist'
  • 2021
    Alberta Whittle
    business as usual: hostile enviornment (A REMIX)
    GI Online
    a film still showing an archival image of people on a boat and an image of the sea
  • 2021
    Alberta Whittle
    Excavating Beginnings and Move Like Water
    GI Online
    Graphic with the wording 'Excavating Beginners and Move Like Water', in pink and purple over a blue background
  • 2021
    Alberta Whittle
    Panel Discussion
    GI Online
    Film Still : Awuor Onyango, from the series Memoritiual (2021)
  • 2021
    Alberta Whittle
    Genome Chronicles screening and discussion
    GI Online
    film still, half statue of a person in action about to kick a ball
  • Programme
    Alberta Whittle
    The Ocean's Edge
    Kelvin Hall Cinema, Kelvin Hall, 1445 Argyle Street, G3 8AW
    A collaged photograph, in the centre is a woman with her eyes closed, she appears tranquil. Surrounding her is varied shapes, colours, and flowers.