Jack Whitelock (b. 1997) is a painter from Hull, East Yorkshire. He completed a BA in Painting at Edinburgh College of Art in 2020, before attending the Royal College of Art 2022-2023, where he is a recent recipient of the Ali H. Alkazzi Scholarship Award.
Jack Whitelock
The Space You Hold Inside Your Brittle Bones Is Heavy
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Oil on canvasSize:
280 x 200cm
Thank You and I Miss You and I Love You
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Oil on canvasSize:
200 x 320cm
Within Its Ability to Bleed
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Oil on canvasSize:
200 x 160cn
The Face of a Man Who Can Suck concrete Through a Straw
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Oil on canvasSize:
200 x 160cn
10 Days and 10 Nights Dissolved Under a Helpless Moon
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Oil on canvasSize:
200 x 160cm
Placed Quietly Through the Spaces You Occupied
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Oil on canvasSize:
180 x 220cm
Only to Be Still
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Oil on canvasSize:
220 x 160cm
Style is not a concern, but a symptom of whatever face I'm wearing in the moment of applying paint to a surface. Through an embracement of stylistic freedom, a painting that could be rooted in doubts, fears, curiosities, can oscillate to something embedded in notions of loss and growth, disruption, repair, hope and resilience. It is within this oscillation that painting provides the spaces for change. Ranging from the subject matter of trees, landscapes, flowers or abstraction, I use painterly interventions to realise and dissect lived experiences into material, becoming a vessel to hold psychologies or to satisfy curiosities. Each work is an act of rewiring and rediscovering new patterns, mysteries, processes and memories.