Graduated from Royal College of Art
Selected by ArtReview
Arctica, 2005
On a travel bursary in Belize last year, this Royal College sculptor became fascinated by the long leathery strips of burst tyres that littered the dusty roads. Not without difficulty, he exported a load of the worn out rubber and used it to make a weary looking palm tree, a work that was submitted and shortlisted in this year's Jerwood Sculpture Prize. Using found organic material - ancient roots, branches, seed pods - White's works pulse with a weird energy bestowed on the dead and the desiccated by their new life as a sculpture. Included in New Contemporaries 2004, White was recently awarded the Deutsche Bank Pyramid Award for his proposal for a series of international sculptures starting in Namibia, and he was also a winner in the 2005 Man Drawing Prize for a series of prints made from dirty mop heads on blotting paper.
(ArtReview, 2005)
Qualifications and training
- 2005 MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art
- 2000 BFA Hons Fine Art, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art
Competitions, prizes and awards
- 2005 Deutsche Bank Pyramid Award
- 2005 NGT Transco Award (Shortlist)
