Susan Dorothea White Bibliography

Extract: The same might be said of many of the women artists whose work is being exhibited as part of the festival, Women and Arts.

At the Glebe Town Hall, eight women artists have banded together to show their paintings, prints, drawings, sculpture, and wall-hangings in applique. They range from the established to the unknown. With the exception of the welded-steel sculptures, however, they all look quasi-naive.

In this setting, Mitzi McColl’s Snoozing Cat, in Gosford sandstone, looks as domesticated as Helen Marshall’s version of Ecole de Paris, and Sally Robinson’s posterisation technique as nostalgic as Seraphina Martin’s relief-prints.

Susan White conjures up memories of William Harnett, the nineteenth-century American realist painter, in trompe l’oeil pictures on wood, while Elizabeth Mason pins down memories closer to home, in a wallhanging called Sydney Bush.

Image caption:
Seated, a painting on wood by Susan White.