RICH WHITE | SCULPTURE | Counterwork.co.uk (cc) by-nc-sa 2024

Information

Counterwork.co.uk is the website of sculptor Rich White. The title comes from a 1998 work Counterwork.
It was first launched in early 2001.

Rich is a member of Axisweb, a-n's Artists' Interaction and Representation and a Spike Island Associate.

All text and images, unless otherwise stated, are property of Rich White 2024

Statement

Rich White makes installation works about location, sense of place and the relationships that develop between people and their environment.

Key aspects of his 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. White challenges himself 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 his 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.

'Rich's approach to a physical environment, its context and history, alongside the desire to unpick and embrace the relationships people have with a location, is acutely perceptive, poignant and powerful.'
Alex Boyd Jones, Oriel Davies Gallery

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