Colette Whiten

Canadian (1945)
Colette Whiten is a Canadian painter.
From ArtValue.ca records, the highest price paid at auction for a mixed media work attributed to Colette Whiten (1945) was C$2,500 - paid for "Faces of Despair" at Heffel in Vancouver on Thu, Mar 27, 2025.
ArtValue.ca has 2 auction art sale records for their mixed media results, with prices in the range of C$1,000 to C$2,500.

Notable Art Works

Colette Whiten’s needleworks are compelling pieces, contrasting appropriated, mass-media images of political subjects with the representational force of an explicitly female medium. Black and white photographs drawn from newspapers were transposed onto cloth as embroidered images, painstakingly produced by hand, pixel by pixel, in cross stitch needlepoint. The resulting fabric is draped over a steel plinth or lectern, balancing a sense of lightness and transience with weighty presence. Whereas previous embroidered works considered depictions of power - representing political leaders, exclusively male and typically having already met their downfall - in this series, Whiten draws her imagery from news photos of women from India and the Middle East. In displaying the resulting tapestries over the heavy, freestanding plinths, Whiten traces a political agency that has been historically denied to her subjects and the medium that depicts them.

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