WHITNEY MCVEIGH was born in New York in 1968, and lives and works in London. She studied at the Edinburgh College of Art where she began to explore visual arts in relation to sculptural form and study of the portrait head.

In 2006 she attended the Salon of Louise Bourgeois in New York where she gave a short talk about her current work, a series entitled ‘Heads’ made using inks and acrylics.

For McVeigh, ‘The Heads look beneath the surface of representation revealing a kind of raw exploration of the psyche. The paintings are an intimate study of human truth. Through the fluid nature of the materials, each image attempts to unsettle the observer's conventional assumption of reality.’

They make a striking contribution to the genre of portraiture itself. In November 2007, she showed at the Broadway Gallery in New York. She has recently returned from Mexico, where she was resident artist at Centro de Las Artes, San Augustin. She is currently represented by Being 3 Gallery in China, Cat Street Gallery in Hong Kong and Agitatto in Geneva. In late 2008 McVeigh will have a solo show by Being 3 in Beijing. Her Heads series has featured in The Times, Financial Times and NY Arts magazine.