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Assoc Professor Kevin White

Position

Deputy Head International Development

School /
Work Unit

Art

Contact Details

+(61 3) 9925 2517

kevin.white@rmit.edu.au

Location

Building: 24
Level: 2
Room: 4

City Campus

College/Portfolio

Design & Social Context

Key Activities

Kevin White is an internationally renowned ceramic artist educated in England and Japan. He completed his BA(Honours) in Fine Art at Leeds Polytechnic in 1977 and in 1978 was awarded a prestigious Japanese Ministry of Education (Monbusho) scholarship for post-graduate research in Ceramics, in Japan. He studied under the late Professor Yutaka Kondo at Kyoto City University of Fine Art and then worked for three years in the Kyoto studio of Satoshi Sato, a member of the ‘Sodeisha’ group of contemporary ceramic artists. In 1983 he returned to London where he completed his Master of Arts at the Royal College of Art.

Qualifications

BA Hons. 1977; MA 1985

Research

Japanese and Chinese porcelain and blue and white underglaze and onglaze enamel decoration. Contemporary studio porcelain production.

School of Art Research Cluster

Art and Object

Research Outputs

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2006, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
  • 2004, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
  • 2003, Beaver Galleries, Canberra
  • 2002, Finders Lane Gallery, Melbourne

Group Exhibitions

  • 2004, ‘Celebrating the Master II’, Skepsi Galeery, Melbourne
  • 2003, ‘Fifty Years of Australian Ceramics’, curated by Gillian McCracken, Newcastle City Art Gallery

Publications

  • 2006, “The Ceramics of Zhang Jingjing” Ceramics Art and Perception, June ed.

Research Supervision

Mon-Xi Wu, DFA, Senior Supervisor, “Organic Abstraction.Sculptural Ceramics that Explore Natural Form with Reference to the Chinese Philosophic Concept of Yin and Yang”

Sara Tse, DFA, Senior Supervisor, “Ceramic Casting and the Commemoration of the Vanished Object”

Pauline Lam, DFA, Senior Supervisor, “The Recontextualisation of Everyday Objects as Metaphors for the Contemporary Revaluation of Chinese Mythology”

Chester Chu, DFA, Senior Supervisor, “Painting and Architectural Space”

Cicy Ching, DFA, Senior Supervisor, project yet to be finalised

Denise Chen, DFA, Senior Supervisor, project yet to be finalised

Margaret Yeung, DFA, Senior Supervisor, “A Changing Landscape: The Integration of Computer Generated Mark-Making and Text with Traditional Chinese Painting”

Timothy Lee, DFA, Second Supervisor, project yet to be finalised

Lucille Shen, DFA, Second Supervisor, “A Visual Exploration of Formation and Change in Cultural Consciousness in Hong Kong”

Esther Liu, DFA, Second Supervisor, project yet to be finalised

Stella Tang, DFA, Second Supervisor, “The Veiled Self – Revealing and Concealing: Issues of Cultural Identity in Modern Hong Kong.”

Evelyna Khan, DFA, Second Supervisor, “A Re-Interpretation of C hinese Landscape Painting Through an Investigation of the Chinese Philosophy of ‘Qi Yun Sang Dong’”

Steven Lam, DFA, Second Supervisor, “Portraiture – Behind the Faces.”

Garry Bish, Ph.D., “The Third Composition: The Enigma of Pictorial Visual Illusion and its Representation on Three Dimensional Ceramic Form”