Malcolm Whittaker: Just Under the Surface

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Artist Malcolm Whittaker has had a lifelong passion for the study of fossils — not too surprising considering he is the son of a Barnsley miner. Malcolm draws on his passion to create his work and he forms connections with his subject that go beneath the surface of the landscape referencing its history, archaeology and geology. His paintings are constructions that combine artifacts from pre-history and topographical detail and he presents them in the form of objects in a museum reflecting man's obsession with collecting, categorizing and cataloguing.