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littlewhitehead, Sentient Orbs, mixed media installation, 2009. Installation view at Talbot Rice Gallery (part of ’Grey Matter’ exhibition).

Littlewhitehead is the working persona of Glaswegian artists Craig Little and Blake Whitehead. Key to their collaboration is an idiosyncratic sense of humour. This tension between the active and passive role of the viewer is central to the work of littlewhitehead. Littlewhitehead utilise strategies of humour, fantasy and desire mixed with fear and anxiety in such a way as to make their sculptures and installations both attractive and repellent simultaneously. Exploring the nature of voyeurism, their work reminds us that witnessing is not neutral or impassive. In a mixing of public and private space, vision and violation converge. Littlewhitehead often seeks to play in the grey zone between reality and unreality. By presenting sculptural installations that combine realism and theatricality, they examine the relationship between the realisation of a fiction and the fictionalisation of the real. By adopting a very accessible, tabloid visual vernacular their work appeals to the viewer's sense of intrigue and makes us collaborators; much is left unsaid and we are encouraged to construct our own stories and narratives as a means of negotiating the often macabre subject...

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