He is born in Paris, 1951. As a child of five, he was already building simple machines as records of things he saw, made of found materials. He studied Electronic Engineering & Systems Control at Queen Mary College in London and then sculpture at St Martins School of Art, where he made his formative work, but left in frustration at the educational programme. He worked as an assistant at the Architectural Association School workshop 1975–1980, and during that time, started building mechanical figures and walking legs.

Since 1979 Whiting has produced a number of large, complex figurative works
in motion. The Business Machine, 1979, consisted of a huge cage a scaffolding with pulleys and wires in which, with great noise, dummies in evening dress fell and rose at the Hayward Annual. He then toured his show of 1978, called Purgatory, featuring the walking legs, which were later used for the production of Herbie Hancock’s Rockit Video. In 1987, he built a large allegorical piece for André Heller’s Luna Luna, after which he left the UK to tour his figurative collection Unnatural Bodies with Galerie Littmann, Basel.
In 1994 he moved to Leipzig where he was able to combine all his works adding a Varieté stage, called Bimbotown, which opened monthly to over 800 visitors.

He lives and works in Leipzig.