Paul White's art practice explores the everyday through pencil work on paper. He has an MFA (Art) from the renowned 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 finalist in other 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 amongst others. He has works in the collections of Artbank, Newcastle Art Gallery, Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, Campbelltown Arts Centre, the Kedumba Collection and private collections.

“I am intrigued by obsolescence, the passing of time and the transformation associated with it. I am interested in how memory, place, and time shape us, and in examining particular moments in my personal history to map out a navigation and exploration of the world. Working only from photographs I have captured, these images represent fleeting autobiographical moments, however, I delight in the thorough investigation of these moments through my meditative pencil on paper process. My practice charts my movement in and around the world – from the far-reaching deserts of North West America, to the outback of Australia, to wrecked lapd cars in Los Angeles, to the pot plants in my own home.

My process of using pencil on paper in a meticulous and highly detailed manner is not only an attempt to gather every degree of detail from the image by conducting a thorough investigation into it, but also a way of slowing down the world with such a time-consuming process. By drawing attention to the landscape around me I seek to examine the mark that humankind has left and is leaving on the world. “

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