Eileen White is a British visual artist, based in Winchester, UK. Her practice is concerned with researching and making visible narratives associated with a particular historical site. Using embodied experience, touch and different forms of image capture, she describes and records the experience of being in a specific place. Seeking evidence of dissolving temporalities, she questions our current ontological, ecological and societal anxieties surrounding impermanence and instability.
Using slow methodologies, such as the act of walking, Eileen attempts to communicate not only what is factual but also what is felt, a state of mind. How can this be used to make sense of our own history, locate ourselves in the present, as well as point towards possible futures? Her work relies heavily on a relationship with materials and analogue processes, in particular the expanded field of print and historical photography. The tactile aspects of these working process are essential in her practice. Examples include cyanotype, pinhole photography and artists books. By developing a specific material language, her research questions our current position and responsibility with regards to the environment. These processes expand the experience of looking and reflect temporal transformations and emotive acts of care rather than a static reproduction.
Eileen has exhibited work internationally and worked with a variety of heritage organisations such as English Heritage and The National Trust, as well as private museums and galleries. She has worked in the eduction sector as a lecturer and teacher as well as facilitating workshops. She is currently at The Royal College of Art, London, studying an MA Print and is a member of The London Alternative Photographic Collective, The Walking Artists Network and The Kiln Photographic Studio.
Using slow methodologies, such as the act of walking, Eileen attempts to communicate not only what is factual but also what is felt, a state of mind. How can this be used to make sense of our own history, locate ourselves in the present, as well as point towards possible futures? Her work relies heavily on a relationship with materials and analogue processes, in particular the expanded field of print and historical photography. The tactile aspects of these working process are essential in her practice. Examples include cyanotype, pinhole photography and artists books. By developing a specific material language, her research questions our current position and responsibility with regards to the environment. These processes expand the experience of looking and reflect temporal transformations and emotive acts of care rather than a static reproduction.
Eileen has exhibited work internationally and worked with a variety of heritage organisations such as English Heritage and The National Trust, as well as private museums and galleries. She has worked in the eduction sector as a lecturer and teacher as well as facilitating workshops. She is currently at The Royal College of Art, London, studying an MA Print and is a member of The London Alternative Photographic Collective, The Walking Artists Network and The Kiln Photographic Studio.