"Drawing is the foundation of my art -my sketchbook is always at hand" ~ Susan Dorothea White
Drawings
"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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Labor Party Meeting (couple, Annandale Branch) 1981
ballpoint pen, black
18.0 x 23.8 cm
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Parents at a school concert 1981
(composite drawing based on concert studies 1-6)
drafting pen, brown ink
27.0 x 36.7 cm
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Women waiting 1981
(tonal composition from wc composition sketch)
graphite
38.0 x 56.4 cm
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Meroo Point 1980 circa
(camping trip)
pencil
27.4 x 35.4 cm
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BLANK 1980 circa
pencil
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Nightshift worker, Elsner Druck, Berlin 8 (workers) 1980
drafting pen, brown ink
23.4 x 17.0 cm
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Anton Wernig 1980
drafting pen, brown ink
27.0 x 36.7 cm
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Molly Boon 2 1980
(Sydney friend)
drafting pen, brown ink with spittle wash
36.7 x 27.0 cm
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Molly Boon 1 1980
(Sydney friend)
drafting pen, brown ink with spittle wash
36.7 x 27.0 cm
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Outline (hand holding hammer) 1980
drafting pen, brown ink
27.0 x 36.7 cm
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Workmen at 282 Annandale St 1980
blue ballpoint pen
27.1 x 37.1 cm
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Neich Rd 2 (gnarled tree) 1980
pencil, drafting pen with brown and black ink, spittle wash
47.8 x 36.0 cm
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Neich Rd 1 (gnarled tree) 1980
drafting pen, brown ink
47.8 x 36.0 cm
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Michael's school shoe and sock 1980
drafting pen, brown ink and spittle wash
36.3 x 27.0 cm
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Michaela (glancing) 1980
drafting pen, brown ink
27.0 x 36.3 cm
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Lemon-scented gum 2 1980
drafting pen, brown ink and spittle wash
36.3 x 27.0 cm
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Lemon-scented gum 1 1980
drafting pen, brown ink and spittle wash
36.3 x 27.0 cm
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Drawing from 'The Australian Aborigines' (hunter in one-leg stance) 1980
pencil
27.0 x 36.3 cm
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Drawing from 'Daisy Bates' (kangaroo and corroboree) 1980
pencil
27.0 x 36.3 cm
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Drawing from 'The End of Dreaming' (Daisy Bates holding parasol, and clothing man) 1980
pencil
27.0 x 36.3 cm
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Drawing from 'We, the Aborigines' 8 (figures carrying and crafting) 1980
pencil
27.0 x 36.3 cm
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Drawing from 'We, the Aborigines' 7 (man playing didgeridoo, man with clap-sticks singing) 1980
pencil
27.0 x 36.3 cm
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Drawing from 'We, the Aborigines' 6 (children and woman cooking kangaroo) 1980
pencil
27.0 x 36.3 cm
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Drawing from 'We, the Aborigines' 5 (women and babies) 1980
pencil
27.0 x 36.3 cm
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Drawing from 'We, the Aborigines' 4 (figure throwing spear from rock) 1980
pencil
27.0 x 36.3 cm
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Drawing from 'We, the Aborigines' 3 (baby and throwing spears) 1980
pencil
27.0 x 36.3 cm
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Drawing from 'We, the Aborigines' 2 (throwing boomerang) 1980
pencil
27.0 x 36.3 cm
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Drawing from 'We, the Aborigines' 1 (woman and child) 1980
pencil
27.0 x 36.3 cm
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Self-portrait (looking ahead) 1980
pencil
36.3 x 27.0 cm
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Michaela (outstretched left arm, hand) 1980
pencil
27.0 x 36.3 cm
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Michaela (profile, at table) 1980
pencil
27.0 x 36.3 cm
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Stephen reading (three-quarter back view) 1980
pencil
27.0 x 36.3 cm
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Michaela carrying crock pot 1980
ballpoint pen, black ink
27.0 x 36.3 cm
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Michaela lifting crock pot 1980
ballpoint pen, black ink
27.0 x 36.3 cm
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Jan Morrison 1980
drafting pen, brown ink and spittle wash
27.0 x 36.3 cm
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Brancato's next-door (rear 276 Annandale St) 1980
drafting pen, black ink
27.0 x 36.3 cm
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Crock pot (gift from Jan Morrison) 1980
drafting pen, black ink
27.0 x 36.3 cm
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Brian's hands, 278 Annandale house 1980
drafting pen, black ink and spittle wash
27.0 x 36.3 cm
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Telephone 1980
drafting pen, black ink and spittle wash
27.0 x 36.3 cm
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Stephen sleeping (on his side) 1980
drafting pen, black ink
27.0 x 36.3 cm
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Michaela practising violin, no. 5 (profile) 1980
drafting pen, black ink
27.0 x 36.3 cm
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Michaela practising violin, no. 4 (back view) 1980
drafting pen, black ink
27.0 x 36.3 cm
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Michaela practising violin, no. 3 (three-quarter back view) 1980
drafting pen, black ink
27.0 x 36.3 cm
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Booth St. bus stop, family waiting 1980
drafting pen, black ink
27.0 x 36.3 cm
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Albert and Lizzy Moran watching TV, no. 2 1980
black ballpoint pen
27.0 x 36.3 cm
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Lizzy Moran 1980
pencil
27.0 x 36.3 cm
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Michaela, hand to mouth 1980
drafting pen, brown ink and spittle wash
27.0 x 36.3 cm
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Stephen eating, pulling chop off fork 1980
drafting pen, brown ink
27.0 x 36.3 cm
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Paul, sussing out the food 1980
drafting pen, brown ink
27.0 x 36.3 cm
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Eating chops (Stephen and Michaela) 1980
drafting pen, brown ink
27.0 x 36.3 cm
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Peeling bark, lemon-scented gum 1980
drafting pen, brown ink
27.0 x 36.3 cm
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Michaela practising violin, no. 2 1980
drafting pen, brown ink
27.0 x 36.3 cm
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Michaela practising violin, no. 1 1980
drafting pen, brown ink
27.0 x 36.3 cm
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Stephen with new transistor 1980
drafting pen, brown ink and spittle wash
36.3 x 27.0 cm
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Paul looking ahead 1980
drafting pen, brown ink and spittle wash
27.0 x 36.3 cm
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Paul and Brian discussing poetry 1980
drafting pen, brown ink and spittle wash
27.0 x 36.3 cm
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Paul (concentrating) 1980
drafting pen, brown ink and spittle wash
36.3 x 27.0 cm
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Michaela studying 1980
drafting pen, brown ink
36.3 x 27.0 cm
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Brian in check shirt, writing lecture 1980
drafting pen, brown ink and spittle wash
27.0 x 36.3 cm
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Unity Hall pub, Balmain, seated man 1980
red conte
24.7 x 26.4 cm
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Woman in scarf and man on bus 1980
red conte
24.7 x 26.4 cm
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Man at community meeting 1980
black ballpoint pen
26.4 x 24.7 cm
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Bus handrail 1980
drafting pen, brown ink
24.7 x 26.4 cm
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No-smoking sign in bus 1980
drafting pen, brown ink
24.7 x 26.4 cm
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Man seated on bus 1980
drafting pen, brown ink
24.7 x 26.4 cm
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Rear vision mirror on bus, showing driver 1980
drafting pen, brown ink
24.7 x 26.4 cm
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Squiggles (our tortoiseshell cat) 1980
red conte
17.0 x 23.4 cm
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Nightshift worker, Elsner Druck, Berlin 13 (Hucky the Dutchman) 1980
drafting pen, brown ink
23.4 x 17.0 cm
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Turkish woman, Berlin (on train to Kreutzberg) 1980
drafting pen, brown ink
17.0 x 23.4 cm
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Partial face, man, Berlin 1980
drafting pen, brown ink
23.4 x 17.0 cm
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Feeding child in cafe, Berlin 1980
drafting pen, brown ink
17.0 x 23.4 cm
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Nightshift worker, Elsner Druck, Berlin 12 (wearing glasses) 1980
drafting pen, brown ink
23.4 x 17.0 cm
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Nightshift worker, Elsner Druck, Berlin 11 (in overalls) 1980
drafting pen, brown ink
17.0 x 23.4 cm
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Nightshift worker, Elsner Druck, Berlin 10 (resting) 1980
drafting pen, brown ink
23.4 x 17.0 cm
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Nightshift worker, Elsner Druck, Berlin 9 (laughing) 1980
drafting pen, brown ink
17.0 x 23.4 cm
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