Drawings : Allegory, Symbolic

"Susan White is constantly sketching from everyday life and it is from the many sketchbooks that she first extracts the material for her compositions." (A. Wernig, Munich, 1980)

The artist works in a variety of drawing media: pen and ink, ballpoint, brush, crayon, chalk, pastel, conté, and charcoal. Recently she has developed mixed media techniques in silverpoint and goldpoint.

"Capturing the essence in line alone is for me the purest form of expression."

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Allegory, Symbolic
22 Works to view
22 Works to view
Allegory, Symbolic: Symbolic visual interpretations of metaphors, idioms, sayings, literature, history, music, and natural ethereal phenomena. Post-modern paintings inspired by Leonardo da Vinci, Hieronymus Bosch, Rembrandt. Feminist perspective with an ironic twist. Mixed media sculpture assemblages that combine everyday materials with carved Huon pine - ‘Idioms in mixed mediums’.
  • Not a Rothko (pen study for print) 2010
    'She Sees' Series
    drafting pen, black fibre-tip
    21.1 x 14.2 cm
    D-2010-3
  • Leda has a Bad Hair Day - Star of Bethlehem Plant 2005
    drafting pen, black ink and red chalk
    29.0 x 21.0 cm
    D-2005
  • Head in the Clouds or the Dreamer (Imogen) 2001
    conté, black and drafting pen, black ink
    14.2 x 20.8 cm
    2001
  • Smasch posing for Navel Gazing 2001
    drafting pen, black ink
    29.7 x 20.5 cm
    D-2001
  • Back view Navel Gazing 2001
    drafting pen, black ink
    20.5 x 29.7 cm
    D-2001
  • Smasch posing for Navel Gazing 2001
    drafting pen, black ink
    29.7 x 20.5 cm
    D-2001
  • Navel Gazing 2000
    drafting pen, brown ink
    19.0 x 24.0 cm
    D-2000
  • Brahmanischer Asket, Kyzil (Dahlem Museum) 1990
    drafting pen, black ink
    23.4 x 17.0 cm
    D-1990
  • Stretching the Imagination (concept sketch) 1989
    drafting pen, black ink
    18.0 x 14.2 cm
    D-1989
  • Self portrait (profiles) 1986
    pencil
    29.7 x 21.0 cm
    D-1986
  • Interview with Edmond Capon at Art Gallery of NSW for position demonstrating lithography 1986
    (male shoes above my head, Julie Ewington's shoe (when she kicked my poster at Women's Day march)
    drafting pen, brown ink and watercolour
    29.7 x 21.0 cm
    D-1986
  • Cyclist full moon (June) Piper St, June moon, flames (composition sketches) 1986
    pencil, ballpoint pen, black ink and watercolour
    29.7 x 21.0 cm
    D-1986
  • Open can of worms 1986
    pencil
    29.7 x 21.0 cm
    D-1986
  • Hair vortex at crown of head, magnified fingerprint 1986
    drafting pen, brown ink and spittle wash
    29.7 x 21.0 cm
    D-1986
  • Networks of cells and spaces, cauliflower head 1986
    drafting pen, green and black ink
    29.7 x 21.0 cm
    D-1986
  • Venous network, figures in veins 1986
    drafting pen, green ink
    29.7 x 21.0 cm
    D-1986
  • For 'Peace' poster 1986
    pencil
    27.0 x 36.3 cm
    D-1985
  • Peeled banana and melting sun 1985
    pencil
    21.0 x 27.0 cm
    D-1985
  • Woodcut (boy's segmented head idea) 1985
    pencil
    29.7 x 21.0 cm
    D-1985
  • Wall mask (boy's head, wood carving idea) 1985
    pencil
    21.0 x 27.0 cm
    D-1985
  • April 1985
    drafting pen, brown ink
    21.1 x 29.8 cm
    D-1982
  • Fetus (drawings from published photographs), bird head 1985
    pencil and drafting pen, black ink
    18.0 x 24.1 cm
    D-1982

Drawings : Allegory, Symbolic 22 Works
Drawings : Allegory, Symbolic 22 Works

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