Carol White

Collage, is informed by life going on in a period in time. It started, as a “named”art form during the Modernist period in the early 1920’s, particularly DaDa.
I’m influenced by simple paper materials magazines, used papers, books from charity shops and ex-library books. The news, film, portraiture, particularly women, from art history, abstractions and online groups have kept my practice going since 2012..

The word “feminism” came to me via my daughter’s post graduate studies.

We live in Ireland. Island life is a different experience from life in America where bridges, overpasses, complicated roads, flight, boats and trains all create a sound track for life.

Clouds are one of my favourite natural phenomena. They appear in my collage quite often. Overlapping groups of people file before my eyes when I’m working with paper - impressions and fragments of sights I’ve experienced factor in through memory. I love paper and I love communicating via collage. Docentry, college teaching and working with my husband on his art practice (in the States) have fleshed out my understanding of composition and space. I live white space in art a d graphic design but I don’t employ it very often in my work. My work is dense and o...

BA Honours Waynesburg University; H.Dip Edu. Visual Arts, University of Mount Union, USA; Museum Educator - trained at The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ.

40 years of teaching and museum education experience.

Collage/Mail Art: Postcards - Opening of Art School, Milan. Italy 2011; Juxtapose - the Madness of Collage - Next Gallery, Denver, Colorado 2011;
Running with Scissors, Collage, Basement Project Space, Cork Ireland; CECAL - Collage Exhibition. Loule, Portugal, 2013.; Mermaids, Bordeaux, France 2015; Book About Death, Wales, 2014, Angels and Demons 2014, Frida Kahlo: Woman and Mystery , Mexico 2014, Napoleon, the Elba Experience 2015; Collagistes Festival 2014; 2015 included in ARTIST CATALOGUE Winter issue 2015; Image used by SWISS BIOMETRICS to illustrate article -"Approaching Happiness"; Collagistes Collective, Bustin' Out on a Dream October 2016, Whitechapel Gallery, London ; Napoleon: The Elba Experience. 2017; Bocciantriano, group show, Pontorma, Italy; sales to private collections 2016-17. Napoleon, The Elba Years - selected. Feb 2017., 3 COLLAGE ARTISTS, The Blue House Gallery, Schull,Co. Cork, IRL., MAMA PAPA DADA in Folded Fans Exhibut, organized by Petra Lorenz, exhibit. March 19, Chemnitz. GER; , Sarah Walker Gallery, Castletownbere, IRELAND, May 2019, Collages and Sketchbooks. -A Book About Death. 10th annual exhibition. the Last Waltz. Islip Museum, of Art, Islip, New York. (Traveling to France; Volume of ABAD goi...