Untitled, 2015
Seven colour lithograph
65.5 x 50cm (unframed)
74.5 x 58.5 cm (framed)
Edition of 30
AUD $2700 (unframed) / AUD $3000 (framed)
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Constantinople II
Oil and shellac on linen
150 x 120 cm
SOLD
Field Painting, 2013
Oil on linen
150 x 120 cm
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Flight, 2014
Oil on linen
121 x 106 cm
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Restraint, 2014
Oil on linen
150 x 120 cm
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Tanglewood I, 2014
Oil on linen
96 x 96 cm
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Tanglewood II, 2014
Oil on linen
96 x 96 cm
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Incendiary, 2010
Oil on linen
70 x 70 cm
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Proxy, 2011
Oil on linen
150 x 120 cm
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Enclave, 2016
Oil on linen
150 x 120 cm
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Song Of The Revolt and The Seven Sisters, 2016
Oil on linen
151 x 120.5 cm
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Aerial, 2016
Oil on linen
107.5 x 121 cm
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The Hall Of The Atlas II, 2016
Oil on linen
119 x 79.5 cm
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Anthony White
b.1976 Sydney, Australia; lives and works in France.
Anthony White lives and works in France and has exhibited widely over the past decade with solo exhibitions in Sydney, Melbourne, Paris and Hong Kong. White's works have also been regularly included in curated group exhibitions in Australia and internationally.
White has been awarded a number of private and public commissions and residencies, including a residency at the Spinnerei in Leipzig, Germany (2010) and The Paris Studio at La Cite Internationale Des Arts, Paris (2009). During 2007 he was the recipient of The Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship to the United States of America. These international projects have been influential to the development of his body of work, which was surveyed in an exhibition at Le Pave D’Orsay, Paris (2014).
White’s paintings are informed by his critical engagement with historical narratives and current social issues, and their relationship to the production of contemporary image making. Materiality figures heavily in White's practice and his works are often characterised by an acute awareness of surface, a preoccupation with physicality and the found object. White revisits recurrent thematic subject matter through his work, considering colonialist legacies and links between imperialist narratives and the propagation of cultural objects.
White’s recent paintings consider collision points, blurs, diffusions, shifts and ruptures at the site of geopolitical and cultural boundaries, particularly in relation to global immigration crises. Echoing Edward Said's identification of "the inextricable links" between Modernism, war and immigration, the problems which these moments of rupture raise for contemporary image making are rigorously worked over in White’s content-loaded gestural mark making.
White has utilised non-traditional techniques such as throwing rags doused in paint to create patterning, blurring and diffusions, principally to build up transparent layers of paint. In doing so, the artist reflects on both conceptual and aesthetic ideas relating to identity and diaspora caused by war and the implications of Modernism.
The paintings draw aesthetically and emotively from the Gutai movement of 1950s, namely the Japanese artist Kazuo Shiraga. During this period Japan was in a state of rebuilding its national identity after WWII. By questioning the rise of the new cultural paradigm of the West, the Gutai artists created something uniquely Japanese.
The protean nature of identity is also examined in White’s, Constantinople I, an ebullient network of thick chalk-white lines over a background of rich purples, blues and golds. Fundamental to the histories of both Christianity and Islam, the city of Constantinople (current day Istanbul) embodies the idea of multiplicity; the shifting, multifarious nature of identity that underlies White’s interest in geographical and cultural boundaries. Located in Eurasia at the physical limit of Europe, where West meets East, Constantinople represents the meeting place of two continents, two dominant ideologies and centuries of change. Constantinople I give us a sense of this constant state of flux, of building and rebuilding.
- Maconachie, Robert. Challenging Mud. Catalogue Essay from 'Crossing The Rubicon', Nanda Hobbs Contemporary Sydney August 2016
Education
20010/2014 National Art School BA Fine Art
2009 Middlesex University BA Fine Art
2008 TAFE Meadowbank Advanced Diploma Fine Art
2006 Higher School Certificate - Newington College
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019 Bloodlines not Borderlines at Young International Art Fair (YIA) Paris,France
2019 The Curious Eye Never Runs Dry with Informality Gallery, Henley,United Kingdom
2018 Signs of Civilisation at Nanda Hobbs Contemporary, Sydney
2016 Displacement at Le Pave D’Orsay with Martin Brown,Paris
2016 Crossing the Rubicon at Nanda and Hobbs Contemporary, Sydney
2016 When the Sleeper Wakes at Metro Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2015 Pentimento at Metro Gallery, Melbourne,Australia 2014 Anthony White-Survey Exhibition at Le Pave D’Orsay, Paris,France
2013 Informal Relations-The Cat St Gallery, Hong Kong
2011 Scratching the Surface- Iain Dawson Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2010 Paris Paintings -Iain Dawson Gallery, Sydney,Australia 2008 Figure and Ground-Rushcutters Bay Gallery, Sydney Australia
2007 Diverse Places- Marlene Antico Arts, Sydney, Australia
Group Shows
2020 Connexions Silencieuses with NG Art Creative Residency, Eygalieres, France
2019 Discrepant Abstraction at le Pave D’Orsay Paris with Miles Hall and Mostyn Bramley Moore
2018 Sydney Contemporary Art Fair with Nanda Hobbs Sydney Australia
2018 The Glover Prize for Landscape Painting, Tasmania Australia
2017 The Paddington Art Prize for Landscape Painting Finalists, Sydney, Australia
2016 The Paddington Art Prize for Landscape Painting Finalists,Sydney, Australia
2016 Art Central Art Fair, Hong Kong with Metro Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2015 69th Salon Réalities Nouvelles, Parc Floral Paris, France
2015 The Annual Summer Exhibition at The Royal Academy of Arts Burlington House, London,United Kingdom (Final Round Finalist)
2015 The Kedumba Invitational Drawing Prize at The Orange Regional Gallery NSW, Australia
2014 The Kedumba Invitational Drawing Prize, Wentworth Falls, Australia
2013 Works on Paper Group Exhibition at The Cat Street Gallery Hong Kong, China
Awards Commissions & Residencies
2020 Creative Fellowship at The National Library of Australia (The Stockade Project)
2019 Artist in Residence at NG Art Residency Eygalieres, Provence, France
2018 Artist in Residence at the Nancy Fairfax Studio at The Tweed Regional Gallery and Margaret Olley Art Centre, Tweed Heads, NSW Australia
2018 Redland Art Awards Third Prize
2018 The Glover Prize for Landscape Painting, Tasmania Australia (Highly Commended)
2017 International Painting Symposium at The Mark Rothko Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia
2015 Creative Individuals Career Fund from Copyright Agency Australia with Atelier Michael Woolworth, Paris
2015 First Prize Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Award
2015 Honourable Mention M16 Drawing Prize
2015 Commended Award Hawkesbury Art Prize
2010 The Leipzig International Art Program Scholarship Leipzig, Germany
2010 Artist in Residence at La Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
2009 Artist in Residence at The Storrier Onslow National Art School Studio Residency Award at La Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris,France (Awarded by William Wright AM)
2008 Artist in Residence at The Vermont Studio Centre, Vermont, USA
2007 The Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship, USA (Two years 2007-2008)
2007 Australia Council Skills and Arts Development: Artist in Residence,Paris Moya Dyring Studio at La Cite Internationale Des Arts,Paris-On reserve
2007 The Churchie Emerging Artist Exhibition Finalists Exhibition, Brisbane
2006 The Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship Finalists Exhibition, The Art Gallery of NSW Sydney, Australia
2005 The Gruner Prize for Landscape Painting, The Art Gallery of NSW Sydney, Australia
2005 The Churchie Emerging Artist Exhibition, Finalist Exhibition, Brisbane (Commended) Australia
2003 The Great Southland Landscape Exhibition Sydney, Australia
2002 The Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Award (Highly Commended) Sydney, Australia
Collections
The Australian Portrait Collection at The Tweed Regional Gallery and Margaret Olley Art Centre,
Tweed Heads NSW, Australia
Soho House Permanent Collection, London, United Kingdom
The Mark Rothko Centre Permanent Collection, Daugavpils, Latvia
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