Littlewhitehead (Craig Little & Blake Whitehead)
Installation views
Frieze London 2024. Photographer: Andrea Rossetti 
Scaling Winter at Public Gallery, London. Exhibition view 2022 
Nada House, New York together with Cole Lu - Exhibition view 2021 
Annexed future at Nir Altman - Exhibition view 2019. Photographer: Dirk Tacke 
All going downward the same as I was at Copperfield, London - Exhibition view 2018. 
Übermensch at Nir Altman, Munich - Exhibition view 2017. Photographer: Dirk Tacke -
Bio
Craig Little, b. 1980 Glasgow & Blake Whitehead, b. 1985 Lanark
littlewhitehead make installations composed of handmade work. They begin by creating versions of things that already exist, though this is never replication, but rather the process of taking a borrowed form to the point where it becomes derelict or devoid of function. By making various subverted objects simultaneously, they look to find connections between things that enable them to recombine the recognisable in unexpected and more meaningful ways. These sculpture are the palette from which they compose spaces: multi-layered landscapes that hint at ambiguous moments beyond technology.
Littlewhitehead (Craig Little, b. 1980 in Glasgow, Scotland & Blake Whitehead b. 1985 in Lanark, Scotland) live and work in Glasgow, Scotland. Recent solo exhibitions include Scaling Winter, Public Gallery, London (2022); New Rain, Nir Altman, Munich, Germany (2022); All going downwards the same as I was, Copperfield, London, UK (2018); and Übermensch, Nir Altman, Munich, Germany (2017). Their work has been exhibited in group exhibitions at the Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden, Germany (2022); NADA House, New York, USA (2021); Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (2015); Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland (2013); Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, Stockholm, Sweden (2013); Museum of South Australia, Adelaide (2011); The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia (2009); and Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (2009).
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Education
2003 - 2007
Glasgow School of Art
Solo exhibitions
2024
Frieze London - Focus section
2022
Solo at Nir Altman, Munich
2020
Material art fair, Mexico City with Nir Altman Gallery
NADA Miami with Nir Altman, Munich
2019
Annexed Future, Nir Altman, Munich
2018
Art Rotterdam (solo presentation) with Nir Altman Gallery
All going downwards the same as I was, Copperfield Gallery, London
2017
Übermensch, Nir Altman, Munich
Inner Landscape, presented by TYVM at David Dale Gallery, Glasgow
2016
Val Verde, It’s Friday Projects, Glasgow
Self Portrait Number 5: Mr Messy, Ryder Projects, London
2015
Front Window Project, Melbourne
The Dangerous Fantasist, The Workbench, Milan
The Overman is a bearded, semi-naked man, La Caja Blanca, Palma
Do you wanna live forever, La Caja Blanca in association with DP Magazin
2014
Nothing comes to mind, Concordia, Enschede
Inner Refuge, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne
2013
Unfinished Business, Marine Contemporary, Marine Contemporary, Los Angeles
Iconic Artists in Iconic Places, Summerlee Museum, Coatbridge
2012
The Cyclic Gate, Sumarria Lunn, London
2011
Bad News, Marine Contemporary, Los Angeles
London Art Fair with Sumarria Lunn, London
2010
Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
The Gilt Hole Complex, Arcan Mellor, London
2009
The Black Smoke Machine Gun Club, The Royal Standard, Liverpool
The Fourth Wall, Bloc, Sheffield
Playing Dog, Gimpel Fils, London
So Many Fellows Find Themselves, K Gallery, Milan
Selected group exhibitions
2022
(upcoming) Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden - Rot, Germany
2020
Nada house NYC, together with Cole Lu, New York, USA
2018
The Pefume Shop, The Ryder Projects, London
Unfollow me, Nir Altman, Munich
British Summer Time (BST), Cofferfield Gallery, London
Sculpture Placement Group, Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Glasgow
2016
Getting the Heart Ready, the Royal Standard, Liverpool, UK
Balagan, Nir Altman, Munich, Germany
Art Rotterdam with Copperfield Gallery, London
2015
Finite Project Altered When Open, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow
Bideford Black, Burton Art Gallery, Bideford
Dead, Saatchi Gallery, London
2014
Melbourne Art Fair with Blackarts projects, Melbourne
Act and Application, Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai
Start Art Fair with Helene Bailly, Saatchi Gallery, London
When Suspicion Becomes the Norm, Proekt Fabrika, Moscow
2013
The Weak Sex, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern
Easy Does It Part III, Supercollider, Blackpool
Easy Does It Part II, Aid & Abet, Cambridge
Easy Does It, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow
Supermarket 2013, Kulturhuset, Stockholm
Be a Man, Summaria Lunn, London
2012
KUNSTVLAAI, INexactly THIS, Sint Nicolaas Lyceum, Amsterdam
Santorini Biennale, Santorini
Preposterous, La Scatola Gallery, London
Constructions, Helene Bailly, Paris
How Art Things ?, Nest, the Hague
The Momentarily Absurd: Humour in Contemporary Art, High House Gallery, Oxfordshire
Mexico Arte Contemporary with TJ Boutling, Mexico City
Tenancy 3, Blackartprojects, Melbourne
2011
Boundaries, Gazelli Art House @ C99 Art Project, London
In Your Face, SHOWstudio, London
100, Langford 120, Melbourne
Six Degrees, Monks Gallery, Lincoln
Art Platform with Marine Contemporary, Los Angeles
Revenge of the Pleasure Principle, KT Contemporary, Dublin
Air I Breath, Gazelli Art House, London
Modern Frustrations, Sumarria Lunn, London
Between Worlds, Field, Folkestone Triennial, Folkstone
British Art Now, Museum of South Australia, Adelaide
If these walls could talk, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles
If these walls could talk, Marine, Los Angeles
Modern British Sculpture, Gimpel Fils, London
Smokefall, Tintype, London
Art First Bologna with Gimpel Fils, Bologna
2010
Prop, Departure Gallery, London
Exteriority, Sumarria Lunn Gallery, London
Figure Study, Gimpel Fils, London
Space Made Live, Arthouse, Glasgow
Newspeak: British Art Now, Saatchi Gallery, London
Manifesten: A Ticket For A Ticket, Trolley Gallery, London
Downstairs Review Part II, Gimpel Fils, London
Arco Madrid with Gimpel Fils, Madrid
2009
Newspeak: British Art Now, The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
Tales That Witness Madness, Elevator Gallery, London
Alternative States, Gimpel Fils, London
Nine days, seventeen hours, thirty two minutes, six seconds, 11 Howland, London
Grey Matter, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
Wild is the Wind, Wall, London
2008
Bloomberg New Contemporaries, A Foundation, London
Conjunction 08, Stoke-on-Trent
Bloomberg New Contemporaries, A Foundation, Liverpool
Permanent public commissions
2015
Kresen Kernow, Redruth
Selected publications and press
2019
Annexed Future, published by Nir Altman (catalogue)
2017
Übermensch, published by Nir Altman (catalogue)
100X Handpicked, published by Saatchi Gallery and Christies
2016
Tatsuo Hino, Littlewhitehead published in Popeye Issue 835, Japan
2014
Ashley Crawford, Littlewhitehead, published in Vault Magazine Issue 7, Melbourne
Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay: International Sculpture Commissions, published by Cape Farewell
2013
Dr Kathleen Buhler, The Weak Sex: How Art Pictures the New Male, published by Kunstmuseum Bern (catalogue).
Leah Oldman, Odds and Ends, LA times (review)
Unfinished Business, published by Marine Contemporary (catalogue)
Louise Donovan, Be A Man!, the Telegraph (review)
2012
‘Art Versus the Playground’, NRC Handelsblad (review)
Scottish Art News Magazine, Published by the Fleming Collection
2011
Beautiful Decay "7": Class Clowns
Air I Breath, published by Gazelli Art House (catalogue)
Francesca Gavin, 100 New Artists, published by Laurence King
Leah Ollman, littlewhitehead at Marine Contemporary, Los Angeles Times (review)
Bad News published by Marine Contemporary (catalogue)Bya Moret, If these walls could talk - a conversation, Whitehot Magazine (review)
2010
Jez Tozer The Alchemy Series: Negrado, artist book published by ‘the Alchemy Se- ries / 2010
No Oil Paintings, The Guardian Nick James, Interviews-Artists Volume II, published by CV Publications.
Newspeak: British Art Now, published by Booth-Clibborn Editions (catalogue)
A-N magazine, March 2010 (cover image)
2009
Grey Matter, Edinburgh University Press (Catalogue)
2008
Art Monthly, No. 321, (cover image and pp 28-29)
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2008, published by New Contemporaries (1988) Ltd (Catalogue)
Grants
2018
Creative Scotland Open Project Fund
2014
Creative Scotland International Fund
2013
Creative Scotland International Fund
2011
Creative Scotland Professional Development Grant
2009
Scottish Arts Council Professional Development Grant
2008
Scottish Arts Council Professional Development Grant
Glasgow Sport and Culture Creative Development Grant
Residencies
2014
La Caja Blanca Gallery, Mallorca
2012
Sumerlee Industrial Museum, Coatbridge
2009
The Royal Standard, Liverpool
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Gallery exhibition
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Works
Seedless reach, 2024, brass, white bismuth, lacquer 140 x 190 x 110 cm 
Pellucid state, 2024, cotton, elastic cord, dye, bleach, salt, badges, hydrochloric acid, mild steel, reinforced concrete, 230 x 184 x 50 cm 
In shallow water during storm, 2024, newspaper, cement, polymer modified plaster, glue, acrylic paint, engineered timber, mild steel, 452 x 190 x 4 cm 
Premonitory reflection, 2022, lead, water, dye, 50 x 41 x 64 cm 
A river in the rain, 2022, acrylic on canvas, 183 x 122 cm 
Arcade, 2024, nylon, elastic cord, dye, goose down, mild steel, reinforced concrete 230 x 184 x 50 cm 
Despairing chorus, 2020, printed polyester, aluminium, G9 led lamp, 56 x 24 x 59 cm 
Like severed hands, 2019, glazed porcelain, brass, sugar 53 x 21,5 x 138 cm 
Blurred and pale, 2019, printed cotton hopsack, leather, metal, 58 x 31 x 37 cm 
Till light drives night back, 2019, printed cotton, aluminium, g9 led lamp, 56 x 24 x 59 cm 
Merge visible, 2017, porcelain, stainless steel, mild steel, spray paint, 126 x 62 x 51 cm 
Bloom, 2018, drawers (birch plywood, linseed oil, formica, contact cement, wood glue, brushed aluminium) tee shirt (porcelain) cube (D R Harrus aftershave milk, Gosha Rubchinskiy eau de toilette, Tom Ford black Orchid, Byredo Mojave Ghost, Comme de garcon amazing green, Versace eros, aqua, pork gelatine, sorbitol, glycerine), 116 x 77 x 34 cm 
Falling upright III, 2018, mild steel, porcelain, clear glaze, gold lustre, spray paint, matte lacquer, 72 x 63 x 46 cm 
When will it end?, 2017, persian rug, stainless steel, mild steel, 397 x 291 x 63 cm 
He’s a liquid, 2018, Armani Arés-Rasage, Cerruti 1881, Calvin Klein, Contradiction, Paco Rabane Pour Homme, Davidoff Cool Water, Gant Classic, Cristobal Balenziaga Pour Homme, Dolce & Gabbana Masculine, Boss Hugo Boss, Dior Fahrenheit, Terre D’ Hermes, Yves Saint Laurent Kouros, Comme Des Gracons Black, Aqua, 25 X 25 X 25 cm
