Tick, Tack, Tick, Tack, Tick: Stuart Whipps exhibits at David Dale Gallery in Glasgow
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Tick, Tack, Tick, Tack, Tick: Stuart Whipps exhibits at David Dale Gallery in Glasgow
Installation view of Stuart Whipps' exhibits at David Dale Gallery.



GLASGOW.- David Dale Gallery presents Tick, Tack, Tick, Tack, Tick, the first solo exhibition in Scotland by artist Stuart Whipps.

Using a combination of projections, prints and structural installation, Whipps presents photographs created over the last year in Las Pozas, Mexico; a surrealist sculpture garden in the Mexican rainforest.

Built by British poet and patron Edward James between 1962 and 1979, Las Pozas is a collection of 36 large concrete structures with titles such as The House with Three Stories That Could Be Five, and The Temple of The Ducks.

James’ formative desire to fix beauty, colour and form dominated his activities as an early patron of the Surrealists. However, it was in his later years, through the use of the most unlikely of materials, concrete, that he would create Las Pozas; his most dramatic and enduring monument to whimsy and folly.

Casting the gallery into a half light, Whipps illuminates it through medium format slides projected on a large screen. The screen, which cuts the gallery in two, is reminiscent of the moulds used by James to produce his structures in its engineering; a similar contrast of built not to be seen, yet unavoidable. Whipps sets the onomatopoeic sequence of slides against a series of prints depicting these casting moulds, their permanence belying the temporal nature of their subject – emphasising their negative space, the reason these structures were built.

Whipps draws parallels between James’ frenetic attempts to fix ideas in concrete and the process of making and displaying photographs. This is part of an ongoing concern with the relationship between photographic materials and processes, with other material pursuits and continues an exploration into the latent possibilities of archives and relics.

Stuart Whipps (b.1979) lives and works in Birmingham, UK. Selected solo exhibitions include: Why Contribute to The Spread of Ugliness?, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 2011; New Wooabbeleri, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-On-Sea, 2010; The Scenery is Very Wonderful. The Weather is Good, Oriel Davies, Newtown, Wales, 2010. Selected group exhibitions include: The Cosmos, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire, 2012; Community Without Propinquity, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, 2011; East International, Norwich, 2009. Whipps received the Observer Hodge Photography Prize in 2005 and was joint recipient of the East International prize in 2009.

Stuart Whipps’ visit to Mexico was commissioned by Wysing Arts Centre and funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Arts Council England and Birmingham City University.










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