BALLARAT.- The Eureka Centre Ballarat presents After Eureka The Studies for Manifestation exhibition from Paris based artist Anthony White. The exhibition features the preliminary studies of highly key-coloured explorations made in response to Sidney Nolan’s 1966 Eureka Stockade mural.


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The works on paper are presented here for the occasion of the 170th anniversary of The Eureka Stockade. Anthony White draws on new research into the 1854 Eureka Rebellion (Australia’s only ever armed civil uprising), the personal papers of Sidney Nolan and recent protest events in France, highlighting the increasing importance of his engagement with material, concept and history. Painted in France during a period marked by widespread public protests, these new works on paper continue White’s wider thinking around the painterly gesture as a form of dissent, as well as the act of civil disobedience, or, in French, Manifestation – a protest, public event, action, or object which embodies an idea.


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After Eureka The Studies for Manifestation resulting from White’s recent Creative Fellowship research at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, and his 2023 exhibition Manifestation at Lennox St Gallery Melbourne responded to the anti-colonial spirit in Sidney Nolan’s Eureka Stockade mural which White spent time with in Canberra at ANU’s Drill Hall Gallery. The mural was commissioned by the Reserve Bank of Australia, which depicts the pivotal event of the Victorian gold rush the riot at the Eureka Stockade– a crucial point in Australia’s democratic history.


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White’s research into the papers of Sidney Nolan at the National Library, uncovered correspondence which reveals Nolan’s response to the only first hand account of the Eureka rebellion written by the Italian revolutionary Rafaello Carboni. The Eureka Centre presents After Eureka: The Studies for Manifestation the initial working sketches of the Anthony White’s reaction to the Eureka Stockade mural
For more information on entry the museum site is here:
https://www.eurekacentreballarat.com.au/after-eureka-studies-manifestation-anthony-white


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Anthony White’s practice is committed to reclaiming the act of dissent through the production of cultural objects. His research is situated at the intersection of several fields, including politics, human rights, and postcolonialism. Concepts of design and its history as a form of social and political expression inform his approach to painting, drawing, collage, and printmaking. The references and materials he uses mark his predisposition for modernist aesthetics without this ever becoming the subject of his work. Through this practice, he tackles relevant questions to our time, to encourage emancipation and new ways of thinking.


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White’s work has been widely exhibited in Australia, Europe, and Asia. Recent solo exhibitions include: Manifestation at Lennox St Gallery (2023) Mobilising Material at The Mark Rothko Art Museum in Latvia in 2023, the largest exhibition of his work in Europe; and the inaugural exhibition of Informality gallery , in Henley on Thames, U.K. -The Curious Eye Never Runs Dry (2019); also Ghost Series (2022) and Signs of Civilisation (2018) and Crossing the Rubicon (2016) all three solo presentations at Nanda Hobbs Contemporary, Sydney.


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His work has been included in over 60 group exhibitions internationally as well as major Australian art prizes including The Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship, The Elioth Gruner Prize, The John Glover Art Prize, and The Churchie Emerging Art Award. He has been the recipient of numerous art prizes including The Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship (2007); The Creative Arts Fellowship at The National Library of Australia (2020); and his work has been reviewed in The Australia Financial Review, Art Collector Magazine, and Elle Décor.


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He has also been awarded numerous prestigious residencies, including The Vermont Studio Centre Residency USA (2008); The National Art School Paris Studio Award at La Cite Internationale Des Arts (2009); The Leipzig International Art Programme Residency, Germany (2010;) and the International Painting Symposium at The Mark Rothko Centre in Latvia during (2017). And he has received support through cultural agencies such as The National Association for the Visual Arts; The Copyright Agency Limited; and The Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP).


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Anthony White’s work is held in public and private collections internationally, including the Mark Rothko Art Museum, Latvia; Soho House London; and The Tweed Regional Gallery and Margaret Olley Art Centre,Tweed Heads, Australia and the South East Centre for Contemporary Art (SECCA) Bega, NSW.


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https://www.instagram.com/anthony_white_paris/

https://talkingwithpainters.com/2023/02/02/ep-138-anthony-white/


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For more information contact:
Director: Anthony Camm
EurekaInfo@ballarat.vic.gov.au