The contemporary artist Susan White produces sculptures in bronze, stone, wood, and mixed media assemblage. Her skills in carving, combined with a profound knowledge of the human figure, give her sculpture a depth of expression.
Susan White's subject matter is drawn from many sources, including human rights, the status of women, literature, music, and natural forms. She transforms idioms into three dimensions. Her mixed media sculptures are assemblages of everyday objects and fabrics centered around hands carved in wood. Humor and imagination make her figurative sculptures distinctive.
"Referring to the balance between gender and races, the bold sculpture It Cuts Both Ways suggests that 'any potential movement of either pair of hands would activate both pairs equally'. To realize the piece, she replaced the handles of garden shears with hands carved from salvaged huon pine (which can take up to 3,000 years to grow!) and modified found clothing for the sleeves..."
Sarah Tanguy, Curator, Hechinger Collection, Washington DC (2002)
Nature: Nature studies in Drawings and Prints include flowers, Australian native flora, plants, vegetables, insects, fish, birds, animals. Still life (nature morte). Sculpture inspired by plant and animal forms, including beans, insects, slugs, worms, starfish.
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Limpet Losing its Footing, 2024
sandstone, pebbles, cast base
27 x 38 x 38 cm
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GM Bean (green patina), 2005
bronze
7 x 7 x 8 cm
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Rock Star, 2004
Gosford sandstone
24 x 21 x 9 cm
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Giant Slugs in Love, 1997
Gosford sandstone
36.5 x 28.5 x 16.5 cm
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Woodworm, no. 2, 1989
red sirus
12 x 33 x 12 cm
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Woodworm, no. 1, 1987
red sirus
13 x 26 x 10 cm
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Eternal Pursuit, 1985
salvaged Huon pine
21 x 9 x 8 cm
Private collection, Australia
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Blowflies: Soundboard Rose in Harpsichord, 1983
beech
10 cm dia.
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Horse's Head, for Grandpa, 1951
relief carving in maple
12 x 12 x 2.5 cm
(childhood work)