[1][2][3] She attended the Vancouver School of Art, and then spent five years studying printmaking at Stanley William Hayter's Atelier 17.

[6] Whittome has had over 35 solo exhibitions,[7] including a major retrospective of her work at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec in 2000.

[8] Between 1995 and 2000 she had four solo exhibitions in institutional venues: at the CIAC – Center international d'art contemporain de Montréal (1995), at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (1997), at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (1998) and at the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec (2000).

In 2003, she bought a disused granite quarry in Ogden and built her studio to work there in 2004.

In 2023, the Joliette Museum organized an exhibition of her recent work titled Sublimation.