Rich White
I make installation works about location, sense of place and the relationships that develop between people and their environment.
Key aspects of my practice are resonance and discovery. Works are informed by research of the locality, dictated by architecture and space, and through the uncovering of stories of identity, memory, place and history. These findings provide context, with the form and narrative of the work resonating with the location and the viewer. The work also provides a sense of discovery; the installations are immersive and interactive, inviting the viewer to explore, travel, climb and reposition themselves in order to fully engage with the work.
The forms the works take are often unknown at inception; beginning on site and organically shaped by the limitations of space, material and self-imposed restrictions. I challenge myself to pragmatically develop and craft new techniques and methods as the work progresses; drawing on familiar patterns, local history and material connections. Risk-taking and coincidence play a creative role in my practice; chance encounters with places, people or materials inform the work in its scope and development, creating sculpture that responds to the varied perspectives people have of their locations and the events that shape them.
Qualifications and training
1998 - BA(hons) Fine Art: Sculpture, University of Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire
Exhibitions / Projects
2018 - Occupation, The Ring, Worcester
2017 - Nest for Pittville, Cheltenham
2017 - Nest for Penryn, Falmouth.
2016 - Recovery Room, BPN Architects, Birmingham
2016 - Not Here, Radiant, Plymouth
2016 - Nene Park, Peterborough
2016 - Resistance, LOCWS Art Across the City, Swansea
2015 - Closing, Private festival, Chichester
2014 - UHNM, Appetite, Stoke-on-Trent
2014 - I'm Beautiful Now, Radiant, Plymouth
2014 - Survivalist Series, CAAPO, Bristol/Cardiff
2014 - Effigy, Private festival, Chichester
2014 - Viaduct, A3 Project Space, Birmingham
2014 - Folly, London
2013 - A Matter of Substance, APT, London
2013 - Be Our Guest, Oriel Davies, Newtown, Wales
2013 - A3 Works, A3 Project Space, Birmingham
2013 - Barnraising and Bunkers, g39, Cardiff
2012 - Conjunction12, AirSpace, Stoke-on-Trent
2012 - Bread & Roses, Motorcade/FlashParade, Bristol
2012 - Collectible, ZAP, London
2012 - Stocktake, AirSpace, Stoke-on-Trent
2012 - The Wonder of Wool, Gallery@Rheged, Penrith
2011 - Home, Core Gallery, London
2011 - Place, Space and Identity 3, Winton Square, Stoke-on-Trent
2010 - All Systems Go, Departure Gallery, Trident Way, London
2010 - Collusion, Arena Gallery, Liverpool
2010 - Market Estate Project, Tall Tales, London
2009 - Urban Hacking, Paraflows, Vienna
2009 - Floor Plan, Phoenix, Brighton
2008 - Conjunction08, Airspace, Stoke-On-Trent
2008 - OSOP08, Greyfriars Bus Station, Northampton
2007 - FRED 07, Fold Gallery, Barrow-In-Furness
2007 - CUBE Open, CUBE, Manchester
2007 - ESSA, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2006 - Transposition, Airspace, Stoke-On-Trent
2006 - Sublime, Association Of Photographers Gallery, London
2005 - Censored Books, The Bookartbookshop, London
2002 - On Location, Blue Elephant Theartre, London
2002 - Dislocation, Islington Arts Factory, London
2001 - Dust Bar, London
2001 - Polyphilia, The Basement, Nottingham
2000 - Nottingham Contemporary Art Exhibition, Nottingham Castle
2000 - Breaking God's Heart, Nottingham Playhouse, Nottingham
2000 - Boomerang 2, The Art Centre, Cheltenham
2000 - Text and Image, Broad Street Gallery, Lyme Regis
2000 - Transfiguration, The Roadmender, Northampton
1999 - Singularities, Nottingham Playhouse, Nottingham
1999 - ww.uk@rwa, The Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
Artist Talks
2011 - Modes of Practice, New Generation Space / The Exchange, Stoke-on-Trent
2010 - INTERROGATION, Queens Square, West Bromwich
2010 - New Generation Space, Borough Art Gallery, Newcastle-under-Lyme
2009 - Head Space, Phoenix, Brighton
2009 - INTERROGATION, New Art Gallery, Walsall
Workshops
2013 - Olympic 2012 Recycling Project, Oakwood School, St Albans
2012 - Drawing in Space, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent
Residencies
2018 - The Art House, Wakefield
2012 - Connections, Multistory, West Bromwich
2012 - The Public Inquiry, The Public, West Bromwich
2011 - Nest, Testbed 1, London
2009 - Capitalyst, Catalyst Arts, Belfast
2008 - CUBElab, CUBE, Manchester
2004 - create/remove, furtherfield.org, London
Competitions, prizes and awards
2014 - LOCWS Art Across the City, Swansea
2013 - Grants for the Arts, Arts Council England, UK
2011 - Project Grant Fund, Wandsworth Council, London
2007 - 1st Prize, CUBE Open, CUBE, Manchester
2007 - Grants for the Arts, Arts Council England, Barrow-In-Furness
2006 - net_sight 2006, mur.at, Austria
2001 - Visual Arts Grant, London Arts, London
Publications
2017 - SCULPTURE, Counterwork
2015 - The Survivalist Series, CAAPO
2014 - Viaduct, Counterwork
2012 - WORK, Counterwork
2010 - Censored Zine, Susan Mortimer
2010 - Fold, Cardboard Folly, Emily Speed
2010 - INTERROGATION: Walsall
2010 - State Of Practice, a-n magazine. November
2009 - URBAN HACKING, Paraflows09
Other
2011 - Our Style is Legendary, Tristan Bates Theatre, London