Research & Development


Period of professional development supported by a grant awarded from Arts Council England.
Various locations: 20 June 2013 - 31 March 2014.

I produced three projects - in Newtown, Wembley and Birmingham - using different forms of public engagement in their development and creation. I also undertook mentoring from three arts professionals to help guide and develop my professional practice. The progress and outcomes of the various projects and fields of enquiry were documented on this blog.


Use these category links to filter out individual projects and strands from the blog: Be Our Guest, Exhibition, Mentoring, News, Research, Wembley Vision, You Are Here,

Dedicated project pages:
Be Our Guest
You Are Here
Wembley Vision

New Statement

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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