carving Chillagoe limestone

SCULPTURES:

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)

assemblage
6 Works to view
6 Works to view

  • Lost for Words 2003
    assemblage: carved salvaged Huon pine, paint, wax, fabric, The Compact Oxford English Dictionary, A Gumbaynggir Language Dictionary, map of Aboriginal Languages of Australia
    94 x 85 x 38 cm
    S-2003-1
  • Measure for Measure 2001–2003
    assemblage: carved salvaged Huon pine, wax, fabric, string wound on dowel, antique plumb-bob, vintage steel railway callipers, U-bracket
    180 x 61 x 56 cm
    S-2001-2
  • Reinventing the Wheel 2001
    assemblage: carved salvaged Huon pine, wax, dividers, fabric, vintage T-model Ford wheel and tyre, doorbell, drafting paper
    76 x 110 x 82 cm
    S-2001-1
  • Next-Door Neighbours 2000
    assemblage: carved salvaged Huon pine, paint, wax, sleeves, cedar door, rustic hardwood door, doorbell, doorknocker, oval door-plaque ‘2000’, antique walking stick, haversack, doormat, bullet casings
    202 x 103 x 98 cm
    S-2000-1
  • It Cuts Both Ways 1998
    assemblage: carved salvaged Huon pine, fabric, shears, paint, wax
    46 x 119 x 10 cm
    S-1998-3
  • The Long Arm of the Law 1988
    aka Fitzgerald
    assemblage: carved wood, fabric and mixed media (wig, legal gown, coat sleeve, shirt sleeve, cufflink, legal papers tied with red tape, mounted on vertical plank on wall
    250 x 200 x 50 cm
    S-1988-1

SCULPTURES : assemblage 6 Works
SCULPTURES : assemblage 6 Works


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