Oliver Whitehead
Oliver Whitehead born in England has lived and worked as an artist in Helsinki, Finland, since 1971. He has exhibited in Finland and abroad. He was also the director of the Media department in the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki from 1991-97.
Whitehead is one of those versatile contemporary artists whose multidisciplinary production and many-sided approach to art is defies easy, reductive categorizations. When it comes to the choice of artistic means of expression, he has been frequently characterized as one of the very few ‘unpredictable’ in the Finnish art scene, where he has been active since the early ’70’s.
For Whitehead, any medium that comes to hand and can be applied to his respective needs is practicable: he moves comfortably within painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, sculpture, film and video, often applying a combination of the techniques.
More recently he has begun to work in cooperation with bands with live experimental video projections.
Work presented:
H2O
This video is a symbolic reminder of water’s uneven distribution that is likely to cause even more disruption and suffering in the future.
