Printing edition, 2010

"My passion for lithography was ignited when I was a student at the South Australian School of Art" ~ Susan Dorothea White

Prints:

Susan White produces her own prints, by hand, in her studio. A complete list of the artist's editioned prints (about 100) is in The Printworld Directory of Contemporary Prints and Prices (2006).

Since 1980, White's prints have represented Australia in over 50 international biennales and exhibitions in Japan, Korea, UK, USA, The Netherlands, France, Germany, Italy, Yugoslavia, Poland, etc.

The National Gallery of Australia collection has many of the artist's prints, from 1960 onwards. The lithograph Thieves at the Market, produced while a student, dates from this time.

The freedom and versatility of lithography appeals to the artist. In 1975, she began establishing lithographic facilities in her studio, initially producing prints from metal plates passed through a small wooden wringer on a bed of plywood - Pedestrian Crossing (1977) is an example of this grainier technique.

In 1978, she acquired a professional lithographic printing press, and produced lithographs with up to 15 colours, most requiring separate plates. The Front Veranda (1986) is an example. Later, the artist installed a C19 cast-iron press and equipment for stone lithography. White prints woodcuts and blockprints carved from fibreboard. The artist has produced some etchings, the earliest dating from 1960.

blockprint/woodcut
19 Works to view
19 Works to view

  • Not a Rothko no. 3 (hand-stippled) 2010, 2015
    woodblock, brush and watercolour
    15.2 x 9.5 cm (printed image); 29 x 21 cm (sheet)
  • Not a Rothko (woodblock) 2010
    woodblock
    15 x 9 cm (printed image); 21 x 14.8 cm (sheet)
  • She sees his new clothes, no. 2 (hand-coloured) 2010
    woodcut (hand-coloured)
    15 x 20 cm (printed image); 21 x 29 cm (sheet)
  • She sees his new clothes, no. 1 2010
    woodcut
    15 x 20 cm (printed image); 21 x 29 cm (sheet)
  • Goose Camp Kakadu: moonrise at sunset (hand-coloured) 2010
    woodcut (hand-coloured in watercolour)
    42 x 64 cm (printed image); 60.5 x 80.5 cm (sheet)
  • Goose Camp Kakadu: moonrise at sunset 2010
    woodcut
    42 x 64 cm (printed image); 60.5 x 80.5 cm (sheet)
  • Germination / Sheela seedpod 1997
    woodcut
    50 x 39.5 cm (printed image); 80.5 x 52 cm (sheet)
  • Intensive Psychiatric Care Unit (IPCU) 1996
    aka Intensive Psychiatric Care Unit, Rozelle Hospital, Callan Park
    woodcut
    49.5 x 39 cm (printed image); 80.5 x 50.5 cm (sheet)
  • The Seven Deadly Sins of Modern Times (blockprint) 1993
    blockprint
    60 x 61 cm (printed image); 70 x 66 cm (sheet)
  • Blind (woodcut) 1992
    woodcut
    42 x 63.5 cm (printed image); 57 x 76 cm and 60.5 x 80 cm (sheets, var.)
  • Cry freedom 1990
    aka Cry Freedom / Apartheid (blockprint)
    blockprint
    45.8 x 30.4 cm (printed image); 57 x 38.2 cm (sheet)
  • Man creating the hole in the ozone layer (4th and final state) 1990
    woodblock (5 colours, hand-coloured)
    22 x 31 cm (printed image); 27 x 36.5 to 28 x 37.5 cm (sheets, var.)
  • Massacre, Tiananmen Square (hand-coloured) II 1989
    woodblock (3 colours)
    45.5 x 30.5 cm (printed image); 57 x 38 cm (sheet)
  • Massacre, Tiananmen Square (hand-coloured) 1989
    woodblock (2 colours)
    45.5 x 30.5 cm (printed image); 62 x 43 cm (sheet)
  • Massacre, Tiananmen Square 1989
    aka Massacre No. 1 / Massacre, Tiananmen Square
    blockprint
    45.5 x 30.5 cm (printed image); 57 x 38 cm (sheet)
  • Claustrophobia (set in concrete) 1987
    cast cement relief print
    27 x 20 cm (printed image); 38 x 25 cm (sheet)
  • Thelma of Wilcannia (the Willy-Willy Woman) 1983
    aka The Willy-Willy Woman
    woodcut
    42 x 67 cm (printed image); 61.5 x 79 cm (sheet, laid Japanese paper), 74 x 95 cm (sheet, Arches Blanc)
  • Ghost gums at Maitland 1975
    aka Ghost Gums
    woodblock
    62 x 43.5 cm (printed image); 76 x 56 cm (sheet)
  • Slingshot 1975
    woodblock
    39.5 x 25 cm (printed image); 61 x 48 cm (sheet, var.)

Prints : blockprint/woodcut 19 Works
Prints : blockprint/woodcut 19 Works


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