Exhibitions

• October 2010 Inside the Sea, Mitchell Gallery, Warwick
• September 2009 Kind of Blue, Buckenham Galleries, Southwold
• June 2009 Last of the English Alabaster, Ringstead Gallery, Burnham Market
• May 2009 Beyond Venus, Peinmore Gallery, Isle of Skye
• December 2008 Christmas Exhibition, Tregoning Fine Art Gallery, Derby
• May 2008 Quintessentially English, The Translucent Rock Gallery, Henley on Thames
• 2008 Man Made, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (Shortlisted)
• October 2007 Flights of Fantasy, Tregoning Fine Art, Derby
• Sept 2007 Flights of Fantasy, Buckenham Galleries,Southwold
• Jan 2007 Free Painters & Sculptors, Bankside Gallery, London
• March 2006 18 @ 108, Royal Society of British Sculptors Gallery, London
• March 2006 Beneath, The Surface Gallery,Nottingham
• July 2006 Members Exhibition, Studio Voltaire, London
• June 2005 Contrasts, The Dome, Doncaster
• March 2005 The Last of the English Alabaster, Tregoning Fine Art Gallery, Derby
• May 2004 Northern Rocks, Frosterley Quarry, Weardale,
• May 2003 Modern Interpretations of English Alabaster, NADFAS: The Pavilion, Buxton
• June 2002 Down to Earth, The Earth Centre, Doncaster
• April 2001 Carvers, National Stone Centre, Wirksworth
• August 2000 Lost & Found, The Shippen, Barlow
• May 1999 Metamorphosis, Women's Cultural Centre, Sheffield
• February 1999 Black and White, Cupola Gallery, Sheffield

Private Collections & Commissions

Public Collections

• Hill House, Brixham
• "Selkie": Weston Park Museum, Sheffield

Awards

2008 Selected for 'Who's Who In Art' (33rd ed.)

2007 Celebration of Living Derbyshire Artists

2006 Free Painters & Sculptors competition (runner up)

Sculpture inspiration

A SCULPTURE by Sheffield artist Vivien Whitaker is being installed in the About Art section at Western Park Museum. Discovery activities for children are being planned around her and there will be a Meet the Artist talk in March.

Selkie is inspired by the Celtic folk legend of a seal that can change into a human form by shedding it's skin. The story tells of a lonely man entranced by a group of women singing on the seashore. He steals a seal skin, hides it away and persuades the seal woman to become his wife.

Whitaker has been influenced by her family links with the north of Scotland where this legend is told. She has carved selkie from English alabaster, a material that is very rare as all of the mines are now closed.