PROJECTS
"Clod Magazine" and other publications
Alongside his paintings sit Whiting's publishing projects.
"Clod Magazine", which he has co-edited and designed since 1987, has run to over 27 issues. Whiting has helped to establish it as a magazine in the true spirit of 'cut and paste', and has a regular prominence on the alternative press circuit.
He also works on the documentation of local Luton institutions, and has published recollections of "The Handy Bag Shop - Business Papers", including text and photography.
A further self-published edition focused on the inventory booklet of his father's freezer, in which foodstuffs were carefully logged and then later deleted. It is called "Bobs Deep-Freeze Inventory" and ran to a limited edition of twenty copies.
The edition is made up of endless deletions, by hand, and the whole exercise is a book that basically no longer exists.
Printing and the "Current Worry" project
Stephen has teamed up with the printer David Borrington at his "Dekkle Print Studios", where he operates as an associate publisher.
They chiefly conspire on a long-term project known as "Current Worry", which is a synthesis of their day-to-day concerns that they harbour, around the social and political conditions of the world. The work is highly personal and semi-biographical, with Borrington concentrating on the political aspects, while Whiting illustrates the social.
Their focus is on the production of printed images and related text, which are available individually and in box-set format. These pieces of work will also form the basis for exhibitions.
A spread from the limited edition Clod Magazine publication, based on the artist's father's log book of foodstuffs.
A photograph of the actual exterior of The Handy Bag Shop, which is the focus of the Clod Magazine publication of the same name.
