ANTHONY WHITE    

Paris Paintings  

 

2 - 13 February 2010

iain dawson gallery

72a Windsor Street

Paddington, Sydney

gallery@iaindawson.com

Paris Paintings-Anthony White

Opening Wednesday 3 February 2010

Anthony White comes from the gestural abstractionist school of painting that

has emerged from the National Art School in the past decade. After spending

time travelling on the Marten bequest and the Friends of the National Art School

(FONAS) Paris studio award, White has brought together a body of work which

has a strength of colour, form and movement rarely seen in a painter his age.

White has been a finalist in many of Australia's most respected prizes and

awards, including the Brett Whiteley travelling scholarship, The Churchie

emerging artist award and Art on The Rocks. White has also been a recipient of

international programs in both New York and Paris. - Iain Dawson 2010

The work in this exhibition was made in residence at Australia's Storrier

Onslow Studio, at the Cite Internationale Des Arts, Paris. This studio award,

enable me to paint and live in Paris for three months.

The architectural surfaces of Paris are laden with centuries of graffiti, posters,

filth and humanity. The works draw upon these references and the sense of

transience, the passing of time, the organic and the antique'

Anthony White 2010

Opening night (Photographs courtesy of Heath Bennet)

'Anthony White’s paintings from the Paris Cité brutally engage the hum

and history of a place so often romantically rendered by travelling artists.

White’s process is gritty and obsessive yet harmoniously tender.

Within the provocative kneading of paint I sense the abstraction of Paris from

the inside out.'

Steven Harvey 2010

Seine II

oil on linen

51 x 51cm 2010

Rendezvous oil on linen 51 x51cm 2010

Rouen

Oil on linen

51 x 51cm 2010

Installation Shot

Guests included: Justin Miller, Heather Bennett and Catherine Martin