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)
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)
THEME:
Allegory, Symbolic
1983–present
Allegory, Symbolic
29 Works to view
29 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’.
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In the Grip of Caffeine, 2019
Gosford sandstone, porcelain platter, coffee beans
42 x 46 x 46 cm
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Stretching the Imagination (large outdoor version), 2016
bronze
179 x 57 x 55 cm
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Energy Spiral, 2009
Gosford sandstone
22 x 24.5 x 20.5 cm
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Athletic Spirit, 2008
bronze on marble base
31.5 x 30 x 14.5 cm
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Stretching the Imagination (version with life-size hands), 2005
bronze
20 x 20 x 64 cm
The Buhl Collection, New York
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Measure for Measure, 2003
carved salvaged Huon pine, vintage calipers, fabric, string, plumb-bob
180 x 61 x 56 cm
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Lost for Words, 2003
carved salvaged Huon pine, paint, fabric, The Compact Oxford English Dictionary, A Gumbaynggir Language Dictionary, map of Aboriginal Languages of Australia.
94 x 85 x 38 cm
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Reinventing the Wheel, 2001
carved salvaged Huon pine, dividers, fabric, vintage car wheel, drafting paper, doorbell
76 x 110 x 82 cm
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Next-Door Neighbours, 2000
carved salvaged Huon pine, cedar door, hardwood door, sleeves, walking stick, bag, doormat, bullet casings
202 x 103 x 98 cm
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Coming Out of One's Shell, 1999
bronze
17 x 14 x 13 cm
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Soprano Singing in a Bach Passion, 1998
bronze on marble base
60 x 19.5 x 15.5 cm
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The Dance of Eternity / Torso-less Performing a Möbius Strip, 1998
bronze on marble base
38 x 23.5 x 14.5 cm
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It Cuts Both Ways, 1998
carved salvaged Huon pine, fabric, shears, paint
120 x 46 x 10 cm
Hechinger Collection - International Arts & Artists, USA
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Germination / Sheela Seed-Pod (bronze), 1997
bronze
21 x 15 x 13 cm
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To Cut Both Ways (sculpture), 1996
chrome-plated bronze and scissors
6 x 37 x 15 cm
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Dante's Angel at the Gates of Purgatory, with Hinged Wings and Keys, 1996
bronze, strap hinge, gold- and chrome-plated keys
32.5 x 29.5 x 15 cm
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The Spirit of the Willy-Willy Wind, 1995
bronze on marble base
67.5 x 20.5 x 36 cm
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Stretching the Imagination (small version), 1994
bronze
7 x 21 x 7 cm
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Beauty and the Beast, 1993
Mooney Mooney sandstone
74 x 69 x 59 cm
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Atlass (bronze), 1992
bronze
32 x 15 x 15 cm
Newcastle Art Gallery, Australia; Private collection, Australia
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Show of Hands / Gestures, 1992
Gosford sandstone
29 x 29 x 25.5 cm
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Slugs in Love / Hug, 1990
sandstone
18 x 14 x 13 cm
Private collection, Germany
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The Shy Egg, 1990
bronze
12 x 8 x 8 cm
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Close-Knit Family, 1990
bronze
17 x 23 x 17 cm
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Interstices, 1988
Gosford sandstone
36 x 27 x 24 cm
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Yin and Yang, 1988
Gosford sandstone
25 x 25 x 21 cm
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The Long Arm of the Law, 1988
carved wood, fabric and mixed media
250 x 200 x 50 cm
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Man in the Moon: Awake and Asleep, 1986
brush-box, black and white conté, mounted on steel pin with base
55 x 59 x 10 cm (inc. base)
(front view 'awake', back view 'asleep')
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Companion for Brancusi's 'Young Man', 1986
Queensland maple
20 x 45 x 10 cm
SCULPTURES :
Allegory, Symbolic
29 Works
SCULPTURES :
Allegory, Symbolic
29 Works