CYNTHIA WHITE

Visual Artist

Lives and works Gadigal Country / Sydney 

 

 

Cynthia White’s work has mostly been associated with Sydney and its built environment. She is known for her thick layering of boldly coloured enamel paint onto custom made wooden boxes. The paint is dripped and poured then allowed to merge before hardening, creating depth and texture. 

 

She has painted many Sydney landmarks including White Bay Power Station and Enmore Theatre. Her works depict anything from terraced houses and parked cars to a colourful crowd sprawled at a Sydney beach.

 

For her exhibition ‘Seabodies’ in 2022 she painted scenes from her favourite beaches, often including the artist herself. Solo show ‘Sex And The City’ in 2020, showed paintings focusing on the distinct environments of Clovelly and Wylie’s Baths. In 2011, a drive along the Hume Highway became ‘From Here To There’. Work included paintings of backs of trucks, road signage and the hills around them. Her paintings for exhibition ‘Storyboards’  depicted night street scenes of cruising cars and sex workers in Darlinghurst and for the exhibition 'Peep Show', she captured the scenes from other people’s apartments viewed from her own. 

 

She has recently been a finalist in the 2024 Greenway Art prize and also a finalist in the 2024 Waverly Woollahra Art School 9 x 5 Landscape prize.

 

Cynthia has recently started painting the rolling hills and big skies of country NSW on found objects. 

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