Anthony White’s paintings are informed by his critical engagement with historical narratives and current social issues and their relationship to the production of contemporary image making. Materiality figures heavily in White's practice and his works are often characterised by an acute awareness of surface, a preoccupation with physicality and the found object. White revisits recurrent thematic subject matter through his work, considering colonialist legacies and links between imperialist narratives and the propagation of cultural objects.

White’s recent paintings consider collision points, blurs, diffusions, shifts and ruptures at the site of geopolitical and cultural boundaries, particularly in relation to global immigration crises. Echoing Edward Said's identification of "the inextricable links" between Modernism, war and immigration, the problems which these moments of rupture raise for contemporary image making are rigorously worked over in White’s content-loaded gestural mark making.

Anthony White (b.1976 Sydney, Australia)

Lives and works in Paris, France and has exhibited widely over the past decade with solo exhibitions in Sydney, Melbourne, Paris and Hong Kong. White has also been regularly curated into group exhibitions focusing on Contemporary Australian Painting internationally.

White has been awarded a number of private and public commissions and residencies, including a residency at the Spinnerei in Leipzig, Germany (2010) and The Paris Studio at La Cite Internationale Des Arts, Paris (2009). During 2007 he was the recipient of The Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship to the United States of America. These international projects have been influential to the development of this body of work, which was surveyed in an exhibition at Le Pave D’Orsay, Paris (2014).