Kirsty Whiten
Kirsty Whiten is an artist known for her intricate figurative drawings and paintings and instantly recognisable street art. Graduating from Edinburgh College of Art in 1999, she lived in Paris and Edinburgh before building a house and studios in the village of Craigrothie in Fife. Whiten’s work has been exhibited internationally, including solo shows with Stolenspace in London, Edinburgh Printmakers workshop and Arusha Gallery in Edinburgh. Whiten's son was born in 2006 and her daughter in 2010. Kirsty Whiten makes detailed watercolours and large, brightly coloured oil paintings. She works with human figures, stories and psychology. The images she makes are confronting and often humorous, concerned with picking over the social norms, exploring the body and human behaviour, especially gender and sexuality. Whiten has published two crowd-funded artist books; a hardcover book of misremembered rituals WRONGER RITES The Quing of the Now People, and another about ritual actions and healing ICON ORACLE.
