I have discovered that I am an intensely political animal. On the one hand art speaks for itself, on the other it requires back up, not as a means to explain the piece or to be one's own critic but to be candid about the motivation behind it all, to say why as well as what and how.
Words
Abraham's Children
Written July 2008
We are teetering on the brink. If we are to pull back there must be an evolutionary leap of consciousness in the collective psyche. Whatever this ultimatly constitutes, it will have to entail the embodied acknowledgement of equality between faiths.
Artist's Statement
Written March 2008
The purpose of this short essay is to think afresh about Christendom’s long standing conflict with Islam and it’s current manifestation in the Iraq war. I intend to give our Western ideals a rocky ride in the process, but before I do that I want to tell you a personal story to place all this in context. Please click on the text link below:
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STOP PRESS - Andy White nominated for Turner Prize!
Written March 2008
Chulmleigh artist Andy White has been sensationally nominated for the coveted Turner Prize by Devon recluse Dolly the Sheep.
Breaking years of self imposed silence Dolly emerged through the mists of her remote moorland field to explain to an expectant knot of journalists, photographers and art critics...
