Stockroom Kyneton, gallery one
16 August / 21 September 2025
PAUL WHITE
Shades and fades
Over time, memories of and from
moments I’ve been and things I’ve seen
digital instants, made analogue and slow
the works and the play, make sense of a place within
fantastical colours fade to soft, sometimes too hard
machines that move us, like us can stop
things that grow overcome and flourish
also perish and devour
the earth erodes, we add to it
we take from it, we make from it
the brutal the beautiful
all is magical is all
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Paul White is intrigued by obsolescence, the passage of time, and the notions of transformation associated with it. He is interested in how memory, place, and time shape us, and in examining particular yet often random moments from his personal history and movements to map out a navigation and exploration of the world. Working from photographs White has captured, these images represent fleeting moments, but become thoroughly investigated through his process of working with pencil on paper. This is not only an attempt to gather every degree of information from the image or moment, but also a way of slowing down the world through the process of creation.
Paul White's art practice explores the everyday through pencil work on paper. He has an MFA (Art) from California Institute of the Arts and is a Samstag International Visual Arts Scholar. He has been awarded the Pollock-Krasner Grant, Metro Art Award, John Villiers Outback Art Prize, Omnia Art Award Works on Paper and is a two-time winner of the Muswellbrook Art Prize works on paper. He has been a multiple-time finalist in awards such as the Dobell Drawing Prize, National Works On Paper, Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, Paul Guest Prize, Rick Amor Drawing Prize and Fishers Ghost prize. He has works in the collections of Artbank, Rockhampton Museum of Art, Newcastle Art Gallery, Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, Campbelltown Arts Centre, the Kedumba Collection and private collections.
