McVeigh has spoken of her interest in what she calls "the internal
landscape: our make-up", seeing her 'Heads' as an "intricate study of human
truth". Like the sculpted heads of Elisabeth Frink, McVeigh's 'Heads'
paintings allude to the tension between universal human frailty and the
totemic qualities of the human image that are central to ancient and
'primitive' art.
I've been working with a large calligraphy brush for the passed five years. These paintings explore the notion that images exist in the psyche since birth. This is a small selection of a much larger b...
Whitney Mcveigh
UNITED KINGDOM
Whitney McVeigh was born in New York, USA in 1968. She received a BA degree from Edinburgh College of Art, where she studied under Kirkland Mane and began to explore visual arts in relation to sculptural form and study of the portrait head. McVeigh has traveled extensively for her work, with significant... [Read More]
