Title

Emma White: Study.

Venues

Breenspace Gallery. (6 November 2009 – 19 December 2009)

Date

(2009)

Summary

Single-artist exhibition. Located: Australia (QLD). Photographs.

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

Emma White meticulously hand-models everyday objects (most commonly office stationery) from shop-bought polymer clays and incorporates them into installations and photography. By mimetic reconstructions of these tools of our working life, White studies the capacity of a hand-made object to become a ‘version’ of the thing it represents.

In Study, her solo show at BREENSPACE, White uses scale and perspective to examine the accoutrements of a culture that emphasises consumption and productivity (paper clips, pins, paper and staples) and the subtle actions that accompany it such as notating, arranging, attaching and organising. [Gallery media, 2009]