DETAILS
Free, no booking required
Charlie White Studio
31 Tinning Street, Brunswick VIC, Australia
DATES
Sat 24 May 11am – 2pm
Sun 25 May 11am – 2pm
Esquisses is an informal open-studio showing old, new and unfinished works by artist and lighting designer Charlie White at his Brunswick studio space. Exploring a wide range of materials including polyurethane foam, concrete and paper, the showroom will present works in development, production seconds and artist proofs available for purchase. Open one weekend only, refreshments will be offered on the morning of Saturday 24th. All are welcome.
Participants
Charlie White
Charlie White lives and works in Melbourne on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. Characterised by the transformation of unlikely materials into design archetypes, White creates an aesthetic language of somber, gothic plasticity through an economy of means. His seductive and expressive works freely tease apart the ambiguities between art and functionality. White’s design background is rooted in his formative studies in Fine Art at the Canberra School of Art and the Glasgow School of Art. Along with degrees in Philosophy and Architecture from the University of Melbourne, White’s designs & artwork position themselves as part of a greater historical continuity of spatial understanding. Recent exhibitions have included the Melbourne Now 2024 NGV Group Show, Warmer Solo Show at Upstairs Error404,VERSA at the Meat Market, and Opus Vincula Solo Show at Backwoods Gallery. Works from White’s commission-based practice reside in private collections both in Australia and abroad.