https://www.douglaswhite.co.uk/film daily 0.75 2021-05-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1621349094458-K0B0NQUYPHSAPQKUNPEZ/final1.jpg Film https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1621349057962-FNQ7Z5YQUOHY81RMUSED/final2.jpg Film https://www.douglaswhite.co.uk/pagecv daily 0.75 2023-02-24 https://www.douglaswhite.co.uk/works daily 1.0 2025-05-05 https://www.douglaswhite.co.uk/works/black-palm monthly 0.5 2021-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1608115340816-7BIYK2BBXK8D2TTMOGZL/1----36.jpg Works - Black Palm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1608114895389-OEYYTIKVUGYQ8SO0X3IU/BlackPalm.jpg Works - Black Palm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1604408653333-JZB0SWLDWAOI3RYTTFJ7/2----5.jpg Works - Black Palm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1608113434774-I7ZSDIK3LTADY1W5LM4V/1----26.jpg Works - Black Palm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1608115069120-97KGMX9ZS48G54DRRSFT/IMG_6873-copy.jpg Works - Black Palm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1604408660710-MOZT427E7IJHGPNHNB7X/2----46.jpg Works - Black Palm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1608114867810-4WWEXVUY55EMQ0TN2JLU/Z00G1-wpNyUzq_muPsECrOQbBX7qDu1Q0X7Z-MNk65I.jpg Works - Black Palm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1613069389516-NSO3GXBDSG6EJ4XKPAOG/BlackPalm_Detail.jpg Works - Black Palm https://www.douglaswhite.co.uk/works/bat monthly 0.5 2020-12-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/96877a49-0f78-4436-a32f-79ddc80881aa/vue-dexpo-Douglas-White-Photo-A.-Greuzat-2017-21.jpg Works - Bat On the day of his father’s death in Melbourne, Douglas White came across a dead bat in the same neighbourhood. The animal must have passed just just hours before, everything about it was still perfect. It was the second body the artist had encountered that day, and perhaps that accounts for the deep fascination and wonder he felt for it. He was particularly drawn to the gossamer thin skin of its wings, curiously stretched and wrinkled around their bony architecture, one of which extended across the animal’s face, seemingly shielding it from the light. Upon returning home White began to encounter echoes of this memory. Discarded banana skins on the streets around his home seemed to hold the same form. He began to collect these skins and fashion them into the memory of this bat, their skins uncannily mirroring the stretches, folds and wrinkles- their curled up ends becoming wings and ears and claws and snouts- each lovingly and delicately rendered. The resulting fragments, combined with faux fur harvested from discarded clothing, become intimate and highly personal reflections on grief. A process of psychological and material displacement, skin standing in for skin, animal standing in for father, a heartfelt and delicate process of reanimation. These types of material and psychological echoes are central to White’s practice- seeing one form in another, a dreamlike slippage between forms, as if materials are dissatisfied with their given forms. which become a highly personalised form of material processing. The works question how memories are evoked, projected and reprocessed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/bd6ee4d0-7c59-4ca2-877d-4c4423ee6169/Bat_Oz_LR.jpg Works - Bat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/2186fffd-d14c-414a-a523-e42e426c30a1/Bat1+copy+2.jpg Works - Bat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/df3f61bd-15b4-42fa-8892-37ba189b819e/IMG_5505-1.jpg Works - Bat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/e0f816d1-429c-4c6d-acc0-75e516c385e6/Insta-1.jpg Works - Bat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/0763b356-fa26-49da-890c-eb753972222b/BatII+copy+2.jpg Works - Bat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/4da26dc5-2ca6-4f6c-a295-29bc86e12bba/IMG_5527-1.jpg Works - Bat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/ad2df54f-98bf-4109-aafc-69d7c5c68b98/IMG_5530.jpg Works - Bat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/f722b48e-74b4-434c-b611-f521612179af/vue-dexpo-Douglas-White-Photo-A.-Greuzat-2017-16.jpg Works - Bat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/0a8a5d42-c810-4ba6-bb56-a589c51c6e09/IMG_5666.jpeg Works - Bat https://www.douglaswhite.co.uk/works/octopus monthly 0.5 2021-07-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1617099727304-ENH7JRCRVC5DGI784HF4/InstallationShot4.JPG.jpg Works - Octopus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1617099610770-8V7NQY8NEN97VMU57O4H/2----65+copy.jpg Works - Octopus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/b04fc3ee-35cc-47ad-82da-90d305196559/2----66+copy.jpg Works - Octopus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/2d3b9db0-9354-459e-b518-8314d1792d4c/2----78+copy.jpg Works - Octopus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/9629cb0e-11ac-4644-850f-65ca64093745/14_02_22_douglas_white_157_print+copy.jpg Works - Octopus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/d3c9676d-0071-4e87-ae17-5bf9e4d490e1/InstallationShot5.JPG.jpg Works - Octopus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/088beebb-c5fc-4b92-adc4-6b79d7426ecb/Octopus+-+2_120x80cm+copy+2.jpg Works - Octopus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/777d1251-94e1-4aa5-b44a-2aa0aca3afab/5N1E5Dvw.jpeg Works - Octopus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/66b75feb-b739-4870-aff1-f1ad95044c83/IMG_6062+copy.jpg Works - Octopus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1d4db8ca-1611-4e15-be9a-c98630a8aaa3/OctopusDrawing2-copy-2+copy.jpg Works - Octopus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/525bc6fb-2cbf-4591-939b-4befcf51106b/195.jpeg Works - Octopus https://www.douglaswhite.co.uk/works/moon monthly 0.5 2020-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1605277125790-9NUE2L3IYNC3O1M6BDI5/1----8.jpg Works - Moon - ‘The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes’ Marcel Proust Douglas White’s Dark Moon works are born of a creative, alchemical process involving wax, pigment and boiling water that produces mysterious, translucent, coagulated forms. It was a process the artist discovered by accident. Pouring away some boiling water, he unknowingly melted some fragments of wax that had collected at the bottom of a bucket. Returning a few hours later this melted wax had floated to the top where it had cooled and hardened into a paper-thin crust. On finding this unexpected waxy surface in the bucket, White very carefully lifted out the delicate form and held it to the light, and discovered his own private moon. Having perfected the process, White has created the moons in various forms. Typically, they are presented as wall hung lightboxes, but have almost been embodied in free-standing sculptures and between glass panes, activated by natural light. Characteristically for White’s work the Dark Moons sidestep the distinction between figuration and abstraction. They have a unique physical presence; an oddly elegant aesthetic quality and a mysterious capacity that hints at, but never fully reveals, a web of strong narrative meanings. They are like talismans left by a now distant and forgotten culture that still retain an aura of power and purpose. NH https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1619447389087-2MZN8JS5ZG33IH7ACS5P/Lunakammer2hr-copy.jpeg Works - Moon - ‘An engagement of similitudes. Resemblances. As Foucault suggests, “Up to the end of the sixteenth century, resemblance played a constructive role in the knowledge of Western culture. It was resemblance that largely guided exegesis and the interpretation of texts; it was resemblance that organized the play of symbols, made possible knowledge of things visible and invisible…” And it is in this world that Douglas White finds the cardinal points of his aesthetic geography: the melted typographies of his Counsel (2005), the half-life of “snarling a seductive minimalist aggression” of vandalized recycling bins, or the longitudinal curvature of his Black Palm series, with their uncanny protrusions of wrought rubber and wire. These are the remainders of place, removed from the context of their most plebian signification, and reconstituted in the gallery space are not mere mystical or naturalist allusion to the legacy of the objet trouvé, the banal beauty of the every day whose aura as a work of art derives not least from their address of an institutional critique. White’s artworks constitute envois into the potential material unknown and reveal to a self professed postmodern subject and society a simple fact: that the map is not the terrain. Indeed, by navigating space though a visual revaluation of substance and form, revealing one to be shocking divergent from the other, Douglas White creates a new cartography of similitudes instead of signifiers, of resemblance instead of representation, which reveal to the viewer just how represented the world actually is. That is, by presenting the inherent and material indeterminacy of the objects which he finds then (re)forms, the artist denudes the bright certainty of the known world. Even through vision, his artworks expose the blindness of the mind made up, and thereby reveal the pitfall of the postmodern: we are not as free as we think we are. ‘ Brooke Lynn McGowan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/b1cd979e-1c44-46ec-abfb-d6370622caf1/_DSC0032+copy+2.jpg Works - Moon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/65e87495-02c0-4f91-97ea-9bda143604b4/IMG_7903.jpeg Works - Moon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/d08dbbe5-c17c-4e22-a5bb-6c6c8fd5e25b/DarkMoonIV+copy+2.jpg Works - Moon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/299d3855-2059-4377-bd1d-082c5d66bd74/_DSC0016+copy+2.jpg Works - Moon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/e53bac7d-4480-4752-a30a-45f1215a6da6/2----81.jpg Works - Moon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/dfb54850-be64-4bde-a8a6-26a02e5a3ca9/2-31.jpg Works - Moon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/631e23da-7815-4012-8ee4-dc6a63a84a73/IMG_8041.jpeg Works - Moon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/260c523f-4991-4aa9-97f8-9e1cfc23a636/MoonStandIIhr-copy.jpeg Works - Moon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/641caf42-3aac-45a7-b163-ac9e0d407e2a/IMG_8217.jpeg Works - Moon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/5f0bd946-5e85-4df3-966c-abc5fa305cab/DarkMoon_2020+copy.jpg Works - Moon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/96b8aa5c-9edd-4ed9-9fa8-db059385bd22/2----90.jpg Works - Moon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/5fd57fdb-16ef-413c-99d5-26895d40cc41/IMG_8275.jpeg Works - Moon https://www.douglaswhite.co.uk/works/elephant monthly 0.5 2020-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/635ec4eb-5c16-479f-ab3d-6983a5c7192c/2---11.jpg Works - Elephant "While traveling in East Africa in 2001 I came across the remains of an elephant. There was little left as it had been mostly scavenged. All that remained were a scattered arrangement of bones and its vast deflated skin, draped and folded like a collapsed tent. The image of that scene has always stayed with me. It was a visceral encounter. Here was a body become landscape, a body both present and absent in which the distinction between the inner and outer had evaporated in the heat and decay. It was a body you could walk through. I've always worked with material that was discarded or overlooked. But of all those objects that I ever encountered, this is the one I wanted most to possess, though how and in what way, I could never define or understand. It was, of course, a found object that was impossible to retrieve and probably for that reason, this dead and distant form has haunted me since. Shades and echoes of it have instead emerged elsewhere my work, in assembled hunks of trees that resembled parts of an elephant or the draped, melted skin of a vandalized plastic bin and most recently while I was building clay walls for a cast... As I worked a rolled-out slab of clay it begin to crease and crack and it became, in my mind's eye, elephant skin... After so long I felt, at least in part, able to recuperate something of this strange, lost encounter and of the unreasoned desire for this abject form." Douglas White White is a sculptor whose work is and is about, transformation, the transformation of materials, transformed states of being and the transformative potential of objects. He works with the discarded and the lost / both materially and mnemonically / seeking / through the alchemy of the creative act / to recuperate value and perhaps to fix in the material form of his work / for a while at least / time and memory / an exorcism incarnate. In this exhibition White presents a series of large sculptures formed of expanses of skin-like, manipulated clay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1605276806782-816X3Y0CJ4WCDJ55PGLP/1----35.jpg Works - Elephant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1605276807116-B1IUBK7AP2B681AYUAAI/1----34.jpg Works - Elephant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1605276806686-X63TKHNESW8XZ79D02Q5/1---46.jpg Works - Elephant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1605276806779-NW6ZISQJNEDZ3SWZ2MVQ/1---47.jpg Works - Elephant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1605276806443-Z6541JAO6S3LJDH9E9XL/1---48.jpg Works - Elephant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1605276805778-2RXMWTCTHWTO150GLCC6/2----53.jpg Works - Elephant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1605276807983-GZYYFQLPCN3EBA9B7LNW/2----54.jpg Works - Elephant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1605276815464-YY0FA8O29IR90Q8FZA46/2----55.jpg Works - Elephant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1605276815681-2RTQ8462I2R4A5ABJBVY/2----56.jpg Works - Elephant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1605276814568-N9BWPK1Y8H9NC0J25II4/2----58.jpg Works - Elephant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1605276815787-WEGSWEZZ3HEIVQV6V02B/2----59.jpg Works - Elephant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1605276824902-SVZL49I1Z476IYNLOFMW/2----63.jpg Works - Elephant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1605276826677-BWDFVUHL2JNRX8N0D800/2----62.jpg Works - Elephant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1605276825794-FIX6E0TW3D5V8UOWW25R/2---1.jpg Works - Elephant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1605276825903-DK99J1DLAWXKNNB6NNGS/2---2.jpg Works - Elephant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1605276826906-FLF6M8LU5G6I7S421IIT/2---3.jpg Works - Elephant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1605276830670-6X4DO16K4EON8DI6KG3U/2---6.jpg Works - Elephant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1605276831456-G36RVRMNNVR5Y7VKFES8/2---8.jpg Works - Elephant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1605276830121-B2I4EQ580QPCL0PTD6XR/2---9.jpg Works - Elephant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1605276831781-H0LZYZX36LUZON56ZKX8/2---7.jpg Works - Elephant https://www.douglaswhite.co.uk/works/essay monthly 0.5 2021-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1617101963793-MXOYBOSE6X7ZC6OW40VK/1-9.jpg Works - Essay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1617101011015-AGU2XGO9ORB08R38FUDO/5_Counsel-copy.jpg Works - Essay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1617101540820-CV4LTKN1JVLH45OD9L8K/2---36+copy.jpg Works - Essay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/93acccd9-2733-4d6b-9c10-b5f127f19140/ASGG-JXHZAwT0Ttuaxz45IJdVl4c36VSRD9PRUhaun4.jpg Works - Essay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/a0158351-7b13-4de7-9e55-f49ac1f757e0/1-62+copy.jpg Works - Essay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/dd1f6756-b00e-4c30-a75e-67dcf54fc94b/2-15.jpg Works - Essay https://www.douglaswhite.co.uk/works/lichtenberg monthly 0.5 2021-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1613073494395-1HNZMD3EGRDIUMUERQ0K/1----27.jpg Works - Lichtenberg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1605263672595-PW42NYR507MDN6IQ7KA4/Lichtenberg1-copy-3.jpg Works - Lichtenberg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1605263606369-NN7LCSTF7EOVYIT2FNO6/1----27.jpg Works - 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Lichtenberg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1605263663533-UXPDHXCDRKN9EAXVKTL6/2----76.jpg Works - Lichtenberg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1605263666935-MKLHNO4CONHDFZ2LSTS4/2---51.jpg Works - Lichtenberg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1605263666822-ENA82ED3HYRJBG4YHYDZ/2---54.jpg Works - Lichtenberg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1605263668003-YM2AEXYFNHFXCD1QVNE5/5-copy.jpg Works - Lichtenberg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1605263673147-ACLTX22H07ACTCSOFHPK/fern_pattern-copy-3.jpg Works - Lichtenberg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1605263673145-CNFICA6F81LQX8K76PEN/img025-copy-3.jpg Works - Lichtenberg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1605263672240-JXG8WNYK504816E7Q9NS/LichLightbox1-copy.jpg Works - Lichtenberg https://www.douglaswhite.co.uk/works/owl monthly 0.5 2021-07-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1619450790635-S50Q0A22Z3N48QHN7R1R/ovwEk0nw.jpeg Works - Owl Owl is one of Douglas White’s best known and most significant works. It perfectly embodies White’s ability to see wonder and beauty in the accidental and the overlooked, and, through the most minimal and elegant interventions, reify these finds into extraordinary and enduring works of art. The backstory to Owl is a case in point. One evening in June 2006 White was on his way to an exhibition opening. On his journey he picked up the Metro, a free London newspaper and saw an image that stupefied him. It showed the ethereal, dusty imprint left on a window after an owl had flown into it. The window belonged to a one Ray Pearce, a retiree in North of England. As soon as he read the related article, White immediately found an internet cafe on Oxford street and began looking for the phone numbers of all the Ray Pearce’s in the Wigston area of Leicestershire and calling each of them to track down this strange imprint. One Ray Pearce wasn’t answering. In the artist’s over-excited mind, this was because he must have been fielding so many calls from other people trying to get hold of his window. In truth he had been away at a funeral. White kept calling. A few days later he got through to Ray who agreed he could come and visit. Douglas asked Sarah, his girlfriend to come with him, hoping that her presence might normalise what, he feared, would seem like a crazy request. They sat and took tea with Ray and his wife Nancy in their living room, the owl imprint hovering, ghost-like over them on their patio door. When Douglas mentioned he wanted to take away their patio door in which the imprinted window was embedded, their faces changed. ‘You said you were an artist, we thought you wanted to come and draw it’, they said. The meeting became an exercise in diplomacy and persuasion. Noting the religious iconography around the house, Sarah spoke of the wonders of God’s creations and how beautiful it would be to preserve it for posterity, but White sat there fearful the opportunity to collect and preserve this profound accidental mark of nature, was slipping away. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1619451545671-VDTDYVB714ER0D96JE66/8DVZckVg.jpeg Works - Owl - Should he tell the Pearces that he had already sourced quotes from local glaziers to replace the window? Should he offer to buy it? Deciding to play it cooler, White thanked Ray and Nancy for tea and their time and left, promising to call them soon. What tools does an artist need? Reflected on story around Owl and the delicate task of convincing an elderly couple to part with their patio door into which an owl has flown, White has come to believe that persuasion might be one of the most important. The French windows had only been installed just a year earlier and in their next call Ray was impressed that White had already sourced quotes from the company who had made them. Ray wasn’t interested in being paid for the window, but was happy to accept a donation to Gideons International on their behalf. So White had his imprinted door. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/075d1e95-16f9-4195-bc4c-ae26569d5b64/Owl1onWall+copy.jpg Works - Owl https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/e70a1e65-9756-41b7-8837-d74035f7de4c/1.jpg Works - Owl https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/770a4323-be21-4478-b1d3-dc881a4de51f/2.jpg Works - Owl https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/ec5ab11d-309a-45a9-bc92-fdd6cc597d34/Owl2onWall+copy.jpg Works - Owl https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1619452804517-SYO2HMJ64F4CE76B8SUX/4.jpg Works - Owl https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/3104fd62-5777-4296-b6c8-87c1c9254afb/Owl4onwall+copy.jpg Works - Owl https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/a891a538-8ac8-4e07-a085-4527394a5426/l-vahIYQ.jpeg Works - Owl https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/63c204c3-2eae-40b4-a679-2ec8853118c4/eMBvpGVw.jpeg Works - Owl https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/b6c58e8d-cf41-42b1-b472-cbbfda1dbd3e/5.jpeg Works - Owl https://www.douglaswhite.co.uk/works/elephant-totem-song monthly 0.5 2021-05-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1621346449223-8OV23Y37S9NUTR4SP19M/1-25.jpeg Works - Elephant Totem Song - Elephant Totem Song “Once upon a time God made this Elephant Then it was delicate and small It was not freakish at all Or melancholy” Ted Hughes, Crow’s Elephant Totem Song https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1621346730988-7DQZTZDY5INZSCESSRSD/2-36.jpeg Works - Elephant Totem Song The works on show extend and deepen the language and sensibility of White's sculptural practice, at the heart of which lies an engagement with the transformative and the poetically redemptive possibilities of art. White works as scavenger and collector, retrieving discarded, overlooked and forgotten objects, natural and man-made. Through minimal, though profound sculptural interventions, namely reconfiguration and re-contextualization, White imbues the objects and materials with new life and new meanings. Ted Hughes' Crow's Elephant Totem Song has long been an inspiration and touchstone to White. Forming part of Hughes' celebrated series of Crow poems, a dark, sprawling, 'folk-epic', full of subtle and oblique metaphor, the poem features an elephant, a walking innocent, killed by hyenas who envy his grace and peacefulness. They tear his entrails out and dismember him, and at 'the Resurrection', the elephant reassembles himself, so that though misshapen and his brains completely altered, he is now wise and disconnected from the world. Physical dismemberment and reconfiguration become metaphors for inner transformations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1621346598690-6624PY1DSED1C9MG7JR0/Elephant-phallus-detail.jpeg Works - Elephant Totem Song In Elephant Totem Song, strange and wonderful parallels are drawn between the sculptures and the poem. The main body of new works are taken from a single, fallen beech tree, a huge carcass White found in the woods. White completely dismembered the tree, chain-sawing the massive trunk and excavating the roots, down to its thinnest tendrils... And in the gallery, the material is reconfigured, and is at once the thing-in-itself, the raw wood and fibrous material and also re-imagined as flesh, hunks of muscle, veins and capillaries. Sections sit on plinths, forming a display that serves as an essay on scale - from the monumental to the minute and fragile - and the eye is drawn in, observing forms within forms, and once again invited to experience myriad imaginative transformations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1621346999522-Z3O0DXJ461EMMXB253XW/1-28.jpeg Works - Elephant Totem Song At the end of the poem, we find the reconfigured elephant walking safe from the world of 'graves of fever', dreaming 'About a star of deathless and painless peace / But no astronomer can find where it is.' In the gallery, alongside the wood pieces, White displays a monumental new work from his Dark Moon series, employing wax and light to create a quietly exquisite work that glows - a mysterious, lunar surface. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/dd7082db-7fc5-40a9-8b4f-89c4624cc970/1-19.jpeg Works - Elephant Totem Song https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/ffa954de-06c2-4505-bf10-bab3368f4040/2-33.jpeg Works - Elephant Totem Song https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/30a5f958-4494-4b03-ba87-3446bd8ef6fa/1-18.jpeg Works - Elephant Totem Song https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1fcfa194-ba82-4414-b394-570e93475017/2-35.jpeg Works - Elephant Totem Song https://www.douglaswhite.co.uk/works/cactus monthly 0.5 2021-05-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1621344489833-U0LDQIRLQJABY8YVFEXW/2-39.jpeg Works - Cactus - Cactus Masquerade was the title of an exhibition at Malta Contemporary Art. The title is drawn from Kit Williams’ seminal children’s book from the 70’s illustrating a strange hallucinatory treasure hunt full of complex codes; the hare being the central motif on every page. In this body of work, Douglas White continues his fascination with detritus, breathing new life into decaying materials. Over the course of a month the artist collected and transformed the decaying husks of cacti that cover the Mediterranean landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1621344763549-4HHICFO51A42KSPDOJV6/2-38.jpeg Works - Cactus His attraction to this material for its bone-like and figurative qualities resulted in a series of steel, thread and cactus sculptures. Through the process of hunting, collecting and reforming contrasted with a sharp architectural aesthetic of display, ideas of costume, fetish, prosthesis, emerge. The strange bodily connotations as well as totemic and ritual associations, reanimate these dead materials within a maze-like and coded structure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1621345255106-XYLL3KFBSKPQAEPMGSBO/2-40.jpeg Works - Cactus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/d2b8d14d-fc3a-47ad-b966-cc8bde7d0e2d/Limbs4-copy.jpeg Works - Cactus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/ee65837f-5fc4-4cd9-b89a-3ad164923ed0/2-43.jpeg Works - Cactus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/189a4fde-065c-4c0a-9f07-39e03b2479fb/Nose1-copy.jpeg Works - Cactus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/27cb16ab-a3d5-4870-b8e8-f436ab0bcb82/Hare_Large-photoshopped.jpeg Works - Cactus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/2da71eff-be9d-44df-9374-4a90db76f539/1-29.jpeg Works - Cactus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/eef966c8-79f9-48b7-8346-6310aa97bc32/Nose6-copy.jpeg Works - Cactus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/8fe18bef-b455-46ba-8cb7-9f3df98ab60a/Masquerade-pile-of-Cactus.jpeg Works - Cactus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/c48b00eb-84eb-4e09-a627-ac1bc62942e9/Installation5-copy.jpeg Works - Cactus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/c2bd1aa2-dc96-4058-8b35-e1b320fbbf93/Installation6-copy.jpeg Works - Cactus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/f035a07a-a3b8-49e4-9ad4-1c66b975be1e/1-63.jpeg Works - Cactus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/e2b25d0e-0368-4e3e-8623-65cb87469b2a/2-42.jpeg Works - Cactus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/c612cf70-a980-484b-bafe-f6322a01da82/2-41.jpeg Works - Cactus https://www.douglaswhite.co.uk/works/digital monthly 0.5 2021-12-09 https://www.douglaswhite.co.uk/works/enracine monthly 0.5 2021-05-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1621345766847-YIFUQK3DTDI7PC8TY87G/2----91.jpg Works - Enraciné - Enraciné Enraciné was a site-specific work produced for Vent de Forets in Meuse, France. For this project the artist used specialised equipment to remove the soil from a strip of forest, leaving intact the dense architecture of root systems below the surface. The work was developed in collaboratiion with Jean Garbaye of l’INRA (French National Institute of Agricultural Research) a leading expert in Mychorrizae, the fungal networks that link the root systems of trees, allowing them to exchange water, nutrients and some believe, information. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/6f1b7411-92d3-4140-ba62-92d6f6b3c888/2---46.jpg Works - Enraciné https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/10c7014c-c977-4fc5-a5fd-1a7cda38789e/2----94.jpg Works - Enraciné https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/d94ab9f9-182f-4c94-895a-9a8c4563be66/square3.jpg Works - Enraciné https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/513c2768-68de-46a1-8068-dc1ea39ccdad/square6.jpg Works - Enraciné https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/01f04187-7554-400a-a34b-653935043dd2/2----93.jpg Works - Enraciné https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/c01fb710-70c9-4024-9df8-86c604329afc/2---47.jpg Works - Enraciné https://www.douglaswhite.co.uk/exhibitions daily 0.75 2020-10-30 https://www.douglaswhite.co.uk/exhibitions/infinte-village-manifesta-18 monthly 0.5 2021-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1618846793837-JBQAJG3DN7ZLQJLVEDTI/IMG_1485.jpeg News - MANIFESTA 18 - Infinite Village - MANIFESTA 13 - Infinite Village The Infinite Village presented as part of “Les Parallèles du Sud” program of the 13th edition of Manifesta Biennale is a multidisciplinary art project and `Social sculpture`, conceived and curated by artists Cora von Zezschwitz & Tilman (Canada/France/Germany). Presented by The (He)art for (He)art Program, with the artistic direction of Francisca Viudes, founder of The (He)art for (He)art Program in Nice and co-curator of the project, Infinite Village taking place at Espace Jouenne in Marseille and then at the 109, a pole of contemporary cultures in Nice, is a social, collective and architectural sculpture that invites you to experience a “common”. This artistic, participative and educational platform will occupy the cities of Marseille and Nice in various forms (installations, performances, workshops, conferences and projection) offering plural activities to share with local residents, international guests, associations and the public. This European and International entity is drawing a new togetherness and humanist future https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1618846910537-OPH9YQH835W3WX7GCNGA/IMG_1429.jpeg News - MANIFESTA 18 - Infinite Village - Created in the 1990s by Dutch art historian Hedwig Fijen, Manifesta is the only traveling biennial. Manifesta is an exchange platform between art and society. The 13th edition of Manifesta takes place from August 28 to November 29, 2020 in Marseille. Manifesta 13 Marseille encourages reflection on their current practices while expanding their narratives through artistic commissions, performances and interventions in public space. In addition to the main program of the biennial, each edition of Manifesta includes a program of side events. For this 13th edition in Marseille, this program is entitled The Parallels of the South. These side events aim to highlight the richness of the artistic scene and local culture while creating lasting and fruitful collaborations between local networks and international made up of professionals, associations and institutions. https://www.douglaswhite.co.uk/exhibitions/a-moon-for-my-father-wins-newvision-award-at-cphdox-2019 monthly 0.5 2021-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1618844315006-JTXS0VEA4RHEQ4F99OXU/Bat_Oz_LR.jpg News - A Moon For My Father wins NEW:VISION AWARD at CPH:DOX 2019 - A Moon For My Father wins NEW:VISION AWARD at CPH:DOX 2019 After its world premiere at CPH:DOX, A MOON FOR MY FATHER has been awarded the NEW:VISION AWARD. The winner of NEW:VISION AWARD 2019 is Iranian Mania Akbari and British Douglas White’s raw and performative video work ‘A Moon for My Father’, which held its world premiere at the festival. On their motivation, the jury says: “‘A Moon For My Father’ is a complex and generous film about bodies. Bodies of work, bodies of politics and history – an extraordinary artist’s body as host of disease and transformation under pressure – and as the subsequent carrier and giver of life. https://www.douglaswhite.co.uk/exhibitions/portraits-of-my-father-as-a-horseshoe-bat-galerie-valerie-bach-brussels monthly 0.5 2021-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1618843010265-BCA3PMQ4HC4G14SYZVSV/IMG_5649-1-390x260.jpeg News - Portraits of my Father as a Horseshoe Bat | Galerie Valerie Bach, Brussels - Portraits of my Father as a Horseshoe Bat | Galerie Valerie Bach, Brussels On the day of his father’s death in Melbourne, Douglas White came across a dead bat in the same neighbourhood. The animal must have passed just just hours before, everything about it was still perfect. It was the second body he had encountered that day, which perhaps accounted for the particular fascination and wonder he felt for it. He was particularly drawn to the gossamer thin skin of its wings, curiously stretched and wrinkled around their bony architecture. Upon returning to London, White began to encounter echoes of this memory in the discarded banana skins on the streets around his home, which seemed to hold the same forms and textures. He began to collect these skins and to recreate this encounter, the half-dried skins uncannily mirroring the stretches, folds and wrinkles in his memory. The resulting works may be seen as intimate and highly personal reflections on loss, in which the artist willingly engages in a process of psychological and material displacement. Skin stands in for skin, and body stands in for body, in the dual processes of preservation and reanimation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1618843031628-AJUQFNR0SSUU1H4J1OYS/IMG_5367-1-390x242.jpeg News - Portraits of my Father as a Horseshoe Bat | Galerie Valerie Bach, Brussels Alongside these works the artist once again channels animal imagery though vegetal matter, this time in the form of an Ox, created out of half-decayed fragments of Opuntia cactus, harvested by the artist on the island of Malta. These once solid and prickly forms are now hollow and brittle, and present a craggy and fragile vision of a beast so associated with male power and strength. White is a sculptor whose work is and is about, transformation- the transformation of materials, transformed states of being and the transformative potential of objects. He works with the discarded and the lost, seeking both materially and mnemonically to recuperate, and perhaps to fix, in the material form of his work, time and memory – an exorcism incarnate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1618843048925-25OQUTHZROV3V563HFJY/IMG_5367-1-390x242.jpeg News - Portraits of my Father as a Horseshoe Bat | Galerie Valerie Bach, Brussels - This notion of fixing is nowhere more evident than in the new photographic series of ‘Owl’. Each of the four images shows the delicate residue left in dust and grease on a window after an owl flew into it. The collection marks the culmination of many years work, during which time the artist tirelessly investigated and collected such imprints from houses around the UK. Barely visible in daylight, the resulting ethereal residues have an otherworldly quality, fitting for an animal so associated with the spirit realm. La Patinoire Royale / Galerie Valerie Bach www.galerievaleriebach.com / www.lapatinoireroyale.com 15, rue Veydt – 1060 Bruxelles – T +32 2 533 03 90 info@lapatinoireroyale.com / info@galerievaleriebach.com https://www.douglaswhite.co.uk/exhibitions/modern-forms-solo-presentation monthly 0.5 2021-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1618840531155-TEKVHU22E5NQYIQG9UZR/1----9+copy.jpg News - Modern Forms Solo Presentation To coincide with Frieze Week 2019 Modern Forms presents a display of major works by Douglas White. “Nothing is created, nothing is destroyed, everything is transformed” Douglas White seems to have taken these words of the chemist and agronomist, Antoine Lavoisier, as his motto. White’s artworks are grounded in a deep affinity for discarded objects, both natural and man-made, and his compulsion to transform them into something altogether stranger. The artist teases out meaning and power from the detritus of the every day in a practice which explores the aesthetic and narrative possibilities of materials that would otherwise be left to waste; lightning struck trees, exploded tyres, vandalised recycling bins, decaying cactus. The magical atmosphere emitted by White’s strangely compelling and poetic works, combined with his investigative spirit, reveals a passion for the curious, whatever its form. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1589847904480-AXE2TZ6WH1YWOYJELYQQ/image-asset.jpeg News - Modern Forms Solo Presentation - Make it stand out. It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1589847904674-UXDT58LZUDAEN1C4LIKQ/image-asset.jpeg News - Modern Forms Solo Presentation - Make it stand out. It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.douglaswhite.co.uk/exhibitions/a-moon-for-my-father-wins-fipresci-international-critics-award monthly 0.5 2021-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1618845825909-Q8BOPC7NWMXBTGF5WIL5/A-Moon-for-my-father-0015.jpeg News - A Moon For My Father wins FIPRESCI International Critics Award - A Moon For My Father wins FIPRESCI International Critics Award We are delighted to announce that A Moon For My Father has been awarded the FIPRESCI International Critics Award at the 22nd Flying Broom Film Festival in Ankara. The jury of Kristian Aalen, Meena Karnik and Sarah Skoric stated: https://www.douglaswhite.co.uk/exhibitions/summer-in-the-city-la-patinoire-royale-brussels monthly 0.5 2021-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1618843528059-OFO4TUX4HIFAP2K3SL1C/vue-dexpo-Summer-in-the-city-Photo-A.-Greuzat-2017-001-390x260.jpg News - Summer in the City | La Patinoire Royale, Brussels - Summer in the City | La Patinoire Royale, Brussels https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1618843549588-OTTPGR3UCQ6KYN009U2P/vue-dexpo-Summer-in-the-city-Photo-A.-Greuzat-2017-025-390x260.jpg News - Summer in the City | La Patinoire Royale, Brussels Pour entrer dans l’été la patinoire Royale – galerie valérie Bach propose une exposition d’ensemble intitulée Summer in the City, passant largement en revue les artistes présentés ces dernières années dans les deux entités.??Laissant à chacun le choix de proposer une oeuvre en rapport avec l’été, sa douceur, sa chaleur, sa lumière,… la patinoire Royale – galerie valérie Bach entend ainsi montrer la grande diversité et la créativité débordante des artistes dont elle défend les travaux, en rapport avec cette saison estivale, créant ainsi une atmosphère récréative et vacancière dans la grande nef et sous la verrière de la Patinoire https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1618843566422-J2FXPOR9SZPUK29KWKEI/vue-dexpo-Summer-in-the-city-Photo-A.-Greuzat-2017-020-390x585.jpg News - Summer in the City | La Patinoire Royale, Brussels Exhibition: 16 June - 20 July 2017 Artists: Alice Anderson | Martine Feipel & Jean Béchamel | Christian Jaccard | Alexandre Joly | LAb[au] | Pierre-Marie Lejeune | :mentalKLINIK | Anita Molinero | Lucy + Jorge Orta | Jeanne Susplugas | Agnès Thurnauer | Koen Vanmechelen | Joana Vasconcelos | Douglas White | Yves Zurstrassen Website: http://www.lapatinoireroyale.com/current_exhibition https://www.douglaswhite.co.uk/exhibitions/artbre-publication monthly 0.5 2021-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1618843863379-07V9E3RNR7UB1AT54Q3A/Ar-t-bre.jpeg News - Ar(t)bre | Publication - Ar(t)bre | Publication Ar(t)Bre by Martine Francillon Pour une écologie du regard aux éditions La Manufacture de l’Image. Préfacé par Jack Lang et Claude Mollard, le livre questionne 64 artistes contemporains sur les liens unissant l’homme et l’arbre. ?Véritable « arbre-corps », l’artiste brésilien d’origine polonaise, Frans Krajcberg, incarne le propos de l’ouvrage. Il en est le « tronc » en raison de sa vie, de son oeuvre et de ses engagements entièrement dédiés à l’arbre et à sa protection.?Autour de Frans Krajcberg j’ai réuni des artistes de tout premier plan, évoluant sur la scène française et internationale. Pierre Alechinsky, Ai Weiwei, Maurizio Cattelan, Gloria Friedmann, Antony Gormley, Ernest Pignon Ernest, Fabrice Hyber, Nils-Udo, Zang Xiaogang, Jean Nouvel, Claude Mollard, Nicolas Normier ou encore JR…La diversité de leurs disciplines (plasticiens, peintres, sculpteurs, photographes, architectes, land-artistes ou artistes urbains) reflète la mosaïque des hommes. Qu’ils soient « éco sensibles » ou à l’écoute du pouls ou de la beauté du monde, leur vision conceptuelle ou figurative de l’arbre transcende nos questionnements. ?L’art est inutile s’il ne sert pas a penser le monde différemment. Les artistes qui m’accompagnent portent un regard écologique, symbolique ou politique sur l’arbre révélant ainsi tout ce qui nous lie à lui et la nécessité de le protéger.?L’ouvrage a obtenu le label COP21.?et il bénéficie du soutien de?-RTE,Réseau de transport d´électricité ?-ADEME, Agence de l’environnement et de la maîtrise de l’énergie?-de l’Université de Grenoble Alpes ?-du Conseil Régional d’Île-de-France https://www.douglaswhite.co.uk/exhibitions/islands-annely-juda-fine-art-london monthly 0.5 2021-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1618842107716-IDHYAPWEZOLPHYVEN1QG/golden_family_2018._from_duet_series__large-390x276.jpeg News - Islands | Annely Juda Fine Art, London - Islands | Annely Juda Fine Art, London Curated by the Russian Club In 1993 Annely Juda Fine Art organised the exhibition Partners, a selection of works by artists who, either through marriage or otherwise, were considered partners in their personal rather than professional lives. The exhibition, including paintings and sculptures by (among others): Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth; Kenneth and Mary Martin; Alexander Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova, gave an insight into the possible influences these relationships had on each of the artists. In the catalogue essay Mel Gooding writes of the complexities of “…interrelations and interconnections, dependencies and independencies, trusts and betrayals…” https://www.douglaswhite.co.uk/exhibitions/magic-method-frestonian-gallery-london monthly 0.5 2021-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1618842352592-FFP305XRF9OZCP5J3W4J/Lichtenberg4_Detail-web-390x585.jpeg News - MAGIC & METHOD | Frestonian Gallery, London - MAGIC & METHOD | Frestonian Gallery, London Nick Hornby | Eduardo Paolozzi | Douglas White “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” - Arthur C. Clarke The exhibition ‘Magic & Method’ is something of a confluence of three artists’ practices that are intrinsically linked to both the artistic and technological contexts of their time. Artistic enquiry, much like any other vital human endeavour, does not exist in isolation – and in the development of each ‘new’ moment in art countless shoulders are stood upon. In the cases of Hornby, Paolozzi and White however it is not only the sediment of art history that provides the platform for their expression, but the new tools – some industrial and generic, some improvised and unique, at their disposal at the point of making. For both Paolozzi and Hornby the ‘tools’ concerned are both the ephemeral produce of Western civilisation and the material processes at hand with which to manipulate and reimagine them. Paolozzi, born in 1924, was material witness to the post-war flowering of both mass production and mass culture on a truly global scale for the first time in human history. An almost compulsive collagist, Paolozzi dissembled and re-purposed every element of this new global industrialism that he could lay his hands upon, and it was to truly game-changing individual figures that he turned when addressing sculpture, on a famously monumental scale. Alan Turing and Michael Faraday, both present in Paolozzian reconstruction in this exhibition, as well as other chosen subjects such as Newton and Wittgenstein, serve as markers for moments when mystery – magic even – became able to be wrought with human hands. https://www.douglaswhite.co.uk/exhibitions/a-moon-for-my-father-5-review-in-the-guardian monthly 0.5 2021-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1618845452769-2Q03S39AH7N292KFKWPR/Screenshot+2021-04-19+at+16.15.32.png News - A Moon For My Father | 5* Review in The Guardian - A Moon For My Father | 5* Review in The Guardian Read the full article here “This is a deeply intimate, personal and moving work from the Iranian film-maker Mania Akbari, whose movies have often been meditations on beauty and body image. (As an actor, she is also known for starring in Abbas Kiarostami’s film Ten.) Akbari has made this in collaboration with her partner, the artist and sculptor Douglas White, and the result is a form of digressive-poetic cinema, connecting images and ideas in a dream-associative logic. https://www.douglaswhite.co.uk/exhibitions/arvore-a-tragdia-da-paisagem-praca-adolpho-bloch-sao-paolo monthly 0.5 2021-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1618846047994-3TE5QYNRDCYC1CIR4VJ3/IMG_6873-copy-390x293.jpeg News - Arvore! A tragédia da paisagem | Praca Adolpho Bloch, Sao Paolo - Arvore! A tragédia da paisagem | Praca Adolpho Bloch, Sao Paolo The exhibition “Arvore! A tragédia da paisagem” is the first exhibition by the Circular Project – Art in Praça Adopho Bloch – Sao Paulo. The collection highlights the concern for the natural world. “The specially selected artists chose to either focus on the theme of the trees themselves, whilst others invite the viewer to sit down and enjoy the beauty of the Adolpho Bloch square or send positive messages of hope for a future world where Nature’s salvation will be more assured or transformed.” ‘Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed’ https://www.douglaswhite.co.uk/exhibitions/force-of-nature-art-pavilion-london monthly 0.5 2021-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1618844041601-NS3LIAFU882VLHWXN9JD/rtaImage-230x130.png News - Force of Nature | Art Pavilion, London - Force of Nature | Art Pavilion, London From the beginning of human history, and in every culture, nature has played a vital role in creative expression. Force of Nature, curated by James Putnam, Research Fellow at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, will include work by 28 established and emerging international contemporary artists, surveying the influence of nature and its processes on their work. Nature is constantly in a state of change, and the artists’ awareness and sensitivity to this change is crucial to the creation of their work which will be site-specific, monumental or ephemeral. https://www.douglaswhite.co.uk/exhibitions/sparkling-like-the-surface-of-the-ocean-at-night-garage-rotterdam monthly 0.5 2021-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1618845082240-NFG00134436CUVC5V1UU/161118-003-390x260.jpeg News - Sparkling like the surface of the ocean at night | Garage, Rotterdam - Sparkling like the surface of the ocean at night | Garage, Rotterdam The exhibition title is printed in bold letters on a sheet of paper taped to the wall of our workspace. Sparkling like the surface of the ocean at night. As these words reside in our thoughts, their meaning constantly transforms, becoming fluid like the ocean and ever-changing in significance. A first interpretation is an image of the beauty of the night and its release of inhibitions. Where the setting sun has made way for the moon to cast its silver light onto the water, breaking into a glistening mosaic of patterns. Nearly everyone has stood at the water in that very way, breathing in a sigh of happiness at being present in that awe-inspiring image. The solitary individual in the immense cosmos. But gradually, this interpretation fissures into multiple new meanings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1618845101220-PB3FPJLHNBJGLB9VIEZQ/161118-001-390x260.jpeg News - Sparkling like the surface of the ocean at night | Garage, Rotterdam The darkness thickens. Picture yourself wading in the ocean, the water illuminating you in its reflection. The jetblack void stretches out above and below you: the infinity of the dark heavens rises far overhead, while the inky depths of the nocturnal ocean undulate underneath. In the dark, little is discernible in the distance, leaving visible the oscillating reflections. You could dive head first into that glittering surface, but there’s no containing it, no holding it, no taking it. It is merely a temporary reflection of reality. Within that sparkling ocean, everything is a fleeting, transient, and ephemeral copy of an ideal form that resides outside of space and time, permanent and imperishable. The allegory of the cave and reality’s elusiveness. The more our knowledge expands, with researchers exploring natural phenomena, elementary particles and wavelengths in a constant search for the essence of life, the more we realise how little we actually know. Mythical thinking makes way for realism. Today’s greatest scientists stress how little we understand of our world, especially when it comes to the cosmos. Enveloping us is deep, dark pitch-black space. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1618845121907-DE4C3SNRZTCF319Q0R73/161118-143-390x260.jpeg News - Sparkling like the surface of the ocean at night | Garage, Rotterdam As an artist, you’re familiar with the echo of the elusive real, like within the artwork that both reflects the world and likewise adds to its darkness. Artworks that peer back through history, or that look towards the unknown before us, refer to the most exceptional of predecessors: always a resonance of that which came before, of something that describes, but never completely delineates our human existence. The exhibition at Garage Rotterdam will explore the numerous interpretations of this particular sentence: Sparkling like the surface of the ocean at night. https://www.douglaswhite.co.uk/exhibitions/enracin-dir-mania-akbari-and-douglas-white-nottingham-contemporary monthly 0.5 2021-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1618842645652-XE5Y0FGT9B4TACGU1N4Q/Page3.2-Moon-cropped-390x128.jpg News - Enraciné dir. Mania Akbari and Douglas White | Nottingham Contemporary - Enraciné dir. Mania Akbari and Douglas White | Nottingham Contemporary Enraciné (2017), 38 min dir. Mania Akbari and Douglas White, UK-IRAN Enraciné explores the stuttering beginning of the relationship between Mania Akbari and artist Douglas White. The filmmaker follows White into the French forest where he is realising a sculptural project from which the film takes its title. We find the artist digging through the earth to expose an intricate network of tree roots laying just beneath the forest floor. This physical intervention into the landscape serves as the metaphorical framework for a conversation which weaves its way through their lives, exploring how personal and political histories can bring us together or hold us apart. Exhibition: 3pm, 03 Mar 2018 Artists: Douglas White | Mania Akbari Website: http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/mania-akbari-films https://www.douglaswhite.co.uk/exhibitions/gallifet-black-palm monthly 0.5 2021-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1625482346105-Y7L1URMXKWD1V9WF49W8/JRuRrd6A.jpeg News - (HE)ART STORIES at Gallifet Art Centre, France - (HE)ART STORIES at Gallifet Art Centre, France For their summer 2021 show, Gallifet has chosen to shine a light on the unique relationship between a curator and their artists. Francisca Viudes, founder of The (He)art for (He)art Program, has created an immersive residency in her Nice art centre where she invites artists to spend time throughout the year. Together, we are delighted to present the group show, (He)art Stories, which will run all summer at Gallifet until September 30th, 2021. These Stories are tales of humanity, of travel, of human relationships and of otherness told through the works of ten artists from around the globe. Some stories are written in ink, others are woven with needle and thread, with pigment on water, with vestiges from a previous tale made new for another story. Created in residency or for the exhibitions produced by The (He)art for (He)art Program, these works speak of the unique relationship of discovery and trust between Curator and Artist. https://www.douglaswhite.co.uk/exhibitions/superrare-a-lot-of-what-im-about-to-tell-you-is-made-up monthly 0.5 2021-07-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1626262315186-ONYZFAYOD6SEKA6A2VNF/4k_Final1_Rotated.00_00_06_02.Still001.jpg News - Superrare | A lot of what I’m about to tell you is made up (2021) - The figure in digital Over the last century our eyes learnt their trade from the cinema – the mise-en-scene, the close-up, lingering on a detail hidden from others or perhaps resting where no one is really meant to look. Cinema changed how we saw and what we felt allowed or able to see. Mark Lewis, the filmmaker as opposed to the character in Leo Marks’ film Peeping Tom, talks of the pathology of the cinematic gaze, and a sadistic impulse inherent in the movie-viewing process. The Mark Lewis of Peeping Tom makes this very clear – his morbid desire to gaze is taken to murderous conclusion. Cinema not only offers liberation but can also make life worse as it skews our expectations. The world presented on screen can alienate us from real life. As our personalities are constructions, we are vulnerable, for we watch and learn and imitate. Over the twentieth century our ‘selves’ have become increasingly populated with the character of fictional others. One result seems to be an increased desire for knowledge and secrets, a drive that manifests itself, perversely, through the desire to look. The eye becomes a camera that shifts and focuses. It shifts and stops when and where at will, offering detail and attention according to its own agenda. So, what happens when that eye leans ever closer into the screen and begins to watch and learn from the digital? All bets are off. What we see can have been reconfigured and reimagined in any number of ways. There is no need for truth, logic or limits. In the first of a series of curated shows, Greg Rook Advisory approached contemporary artists and discussed reimagining their work as NFTs. Some were already invested, and some were initially wary, but it was immediately obvious that this platform for sharing digital work could open up possibilities for innovative thought. Where digital work might previously have languished on so many hard drives, it now had an outlet and an audience. The artists became enthused to create new work that was as much a part of their artistic practice as anything else they would put out in the world. Considering traditional notions of portraiture and the figure they looked again at how digital art and animation could reframe their thinking. Curator: Greg Rook is a UK based artist and art advisor. www.gregrookadvisory.com www.gregrook.co.uk A lot of what I’m about to tell you is made up. July 9 - August 13, 2021 https://superrare.com/features/a-lot-of-what-im-about-to-tell-you-is-made-up Douglas White, Oracle, 2021 https://superrare.com/artwork-v2/oracle-26054 https://www.douglaswhite.co.uk/exhibitions/royal-academy-summer-exhibition-2022 monthly 0.5 2022-06-17 https://www.douglaswhite.co.uk/exhibitions/conference-of-birds monthly 0.5 2022-06-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/d6785c72-5c9e-4833-821f-6f1579295ee8/bird_installs-029a.jpg News - The Conference of the Birds | Tristan Hoare Gallery Tristan Hoare is delighted to present The Conference of the Birds, a multidisciplinary group exhibition curated with Flora Hesketh and Omar Mazhar. The title is taken from Attar of Nishapur’s 12th century poem which tells the story of the wise Hoopoe leading the birds of the world on a journey in search of their ideal king, the legendary Simorgh. Birds have fascinated humans from the beginning of time, inspiring amongst other things architecture, science, technology, poetry, opera, folklore, fairy tales, film, fashion, and of course the visual arts. Our fascination with flight, the feelings of freedom, movement, not to mention migration, are inextricably connected with birds. There are over 10,000 different species living in every habitat on Earth, from desert, mountain and jungle, to farms, gardens and cities. Most people see or hear a bird every day. Different birds mean different things to different cultures and civilisations; they can be seen as harbingers of good luck or bad luck, rebirth or death, they can be beautiful and yet terrifying at the same time, and in art they are often symbolic. During the pandemic, we spent much more time observing the small changes in nature around us and interest in birdwatching rose significantly. Birds have always been messengers, informing us of changes in the environment, connecting us with nature and providing us with a deeper understanding of nature itself, perhaps thus explaining their predominance in art. Birds appear in the art of every culture throughout the ages, from Neolithic cave drawings to significant roles as gods and deities in pagan religions, to symbolic representations in Christian paintings such as Piero della Francesca’s dove in The Baptism of Christ from the 15th century. In the 17th century with hunting no longer the preserve of the nobility, paintings of birds as trophies, by artists such as Frans Snyders and others, proliferated as the upwardly mobile society of the time fuelled demand. In the 19th century, John James Audubon’s spectacular landmark work of ornithological illustration, Birds of America, follows on from the 18th century Indian masters’ paintings of birds commissioned by East India company officials, an example of which by Sheikh Zayn al-Din is included in this exhibition. In the 20th century, birds appeared in many art movements, sometimes as symbols of hope, freedom and peace, and at times, with darker, more ominous connotations, as with some surrealist paintings. Researching this show, we were surprised by how many contemporary artists were looking back at this rich subject in art history, as well as looking directly at the natural world. The Conference of the Birds explores different facets of the subject and presents artworks from a wide variety of cultures using different materials. The exhibition stretches from 800 BC to the present day, with an emphasis on contemporary art and how the subject continues to inspire artists today. Flight, feathers and birds are presented in a multitude of ways, such as Emilie Pugh and Aimée Parrott’s magnificent murmurations or Rafaela de Ascanio’s depictions of the Mesopotamian goddess Ishtar, a winged figure with talons for feet. Birds are the most recurring subject in Kiki Smith’s practice, who describes them as ‘stand-ins for souls’. A 9th century bronze of a celestial musician, part human and part bird, will be in good company with photographic works by Richard Learoyd, interactive works by Kate MccGwire and ceramics by Pablo Picasso and Paula Rego! Birds are both familiar and mysterious, spending much of their time outside our vision and understanding. This small attempt at a giant theme illustrates the continued importance they play in art and in our lives. The Gallery Founded in 2009, TRISTAN HOARE is a multi-layered gallery focusing on young and established artists working in a variety of mediums. African photography, glass, painting and drawing are all areas of interest, as well as a developing passion for ceramics. Each year we curate an ambitious exhibition with an overarching theme. Geometrica (2018), Botanica (2019) and Folds (2021) enabled us to collaborate with multiple artists and galleries, combining work from BC to the present day. Exhibitions are executed with the intention of telling a story and connecting with both seasoned collectors and people less familiar with the art world. The gallery is located in a Grade I listed Georgian house in Fitzroy Square. TRISTAN HOARE 6 Fitzroy Square London, W1T 5DX Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 6pm https://www.douglaswhite.co.uk/exhibitions/lubion-screening-on-matflixorg monthly 0.5 2021-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/1618847107344-0FYO2MW8TH6K70RLFEE7/Screenshot+2021-04-19+at+16.44.24.png News - MattFlix presents Lubion (2019) - MattFlix presents Lubion (2019), a short film by Mania Akbari and Douglas White, screening for one month from Friday 26th March. https://www.douglaswhite.co.uk/exhibitions/muse-dauphinois-residency monthly 0.5 2021-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/8b1ad3cd-7133-432c-9213-6224000cb872/BlackPalm_MuseeDauphinois-5.jpg News - Musée Dauphinois Residency https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/9c3b4918-5e63-42f1-89bd-e5bdcf521219/BlackPalm_MuseeDauphinois-4.jpg News - Musée Dauphinois Residency https://www.douglaswhite.co.uk/exhibitions/gaia-fiac-2019 monthly 0.5 2021-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/f59d8c38-549c-410b-b7fc-1a4f55f8b5a9/IMG_1973.jpg News - GAIA Maison Guerlain https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9bdfdb4da5822a9953e94c/468d6665-d3c9-442d-8028-656fa1db1b31/BlackSun-Edit.jpg News - GAIA Maison Guerlain