Kevin White's current solo exhibition is showing at Flinders Lane Gallery from July 27 to August 14, 2010. These latest pieces draw on influences from his time spent working in Japan.

With an aesthetic sensibility deeply attuned toward the East Asian, Kevin White's ceramic vessels present an elegant physicality of form characteristic of oriental porcelain traditions. His respect for his materials, combined with expertise acquired through countless hours of making are integral to White's creative language, allowing for a certain restraint and emphasis of formal sculptural qualities. White's sheared cone vessels echo a simplicity of line akin to Japanese ceremonial dotaku bells. Adorned with imagery drawn freehand or loosely imprinted in undulating grids White's fluent integration of surface with object creates a sense of 'wholeness' or 'purity' that remains dynamic. The blue and white underglaze and onglaze enamel decoration break up the continuity of surface to shift the strong symmetry of the thrown vessel and lead the eye around the form. The vessel appears as a conversation between the painted mark and three dimensional form in a kind of alchemy that does not eschew its reading as functional artifact.

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.