After a rather hectic period I have finally relocated to Bristol - so it’s back on with work, getting exhibitions and continuing my research and development projects.

I’m really looking forward to getting stuck in to Bristol’s lively art scene; I’ve already been to make sushi at Spike Island and been to a few exhibition openings.

I’ll will now be recommencing my research and development projects - You Are Here in Birmingham will begin it’s next phase soon, and the replacement third project will hopefully be announced soon.

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In order to try and raise awareness about the Duddeston Viaduct and my project I’m working on a one-off magazine about it, to be distributed around the area. The magazine will contain (among other things) a map of the viaduct and the streets that follow it, a short history, activities and ways to get involved with my final project at A3 Project Space.

If you have any interesting information, images, stories or thoughts about the viaduct please get in touch via the contact page. Any contributions will be acknowledged (unless you want to remain anonymous?)

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After working with mentors Rosalind Davis and Julie McCalden I have written a new statement:

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

Key aspects to 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, humanity, politics and history. These findings are interwoven into the structures creating a context for the work to exist within with the form and narrative of the work resonating with the location and the viewer. The work also provides the viewer with 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 a socio-political sculpture responding to the varied perspectives people have of their locations and the events that shape them.

“Part of the challenge, and the integral way White achieves his installations (though epic in their scale and ambition) is through a simplifying of a complex process, a distillation of an idea or material; structurally intervening in and navigating through spaces.”
Rosalind Davis

I have also refreshed my downloadable Portfolio and CV pdf.

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Be Our Guest reviewed on This Is Tomorrow.

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A bit of bad news today. Merton Borough Council have withdrawn their match funding for my third project - the car park in Mitcham - so I’m going to have find a new project.

This puts me in the unusual position of having an amount of money to put towards producing a new work but having no project to produce it for. This is not necessarily a bad thing as it actually throws me in at the deep end for one of the aspects of my practice that I really want to develop - self-initiated proposals. Over the next couple of months I’ll be contacting various folk I’ve worked with previously, and a few groups that I’d like to work with, to see if we can develop a project together.

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