Eileen White is an artist, based in Winchester, UK. Her practice is concerned with researching and making visible her experience of being in a specific landscape. She engages with place and perception, using embodied experience, especially walking, touch and different forms of image capture, to describe and record the evidence of witnessing dissolving temporalities. By questioning our current ontological, ecological and societal anxieties surrounding impermanence and instability, her work attempts to 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 and physical aspects of these working processes are essential in her practice and expand the experience of looking, reflecting emotive acts of care rather than presenting a static reproduction. The time invested in the making of the work, alongside the careful choice of materials and the discarding of waste in her processes, has created a specific material language, which questions our current position and responsibility with regards to the environment.
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 co-runs The Sustainable Darkroom an artist run research, training and mutual learning programme, to equip cultural practitioners with new skills and knowledge to develop an environmentally friendly photographic darkroom practice
and is a student at The Royal College of Art, London, MA Print. She is also a member of The London Alternative Photographic Collective, The Walking Artists Network and The Kiln Photographic Studio.
Her work relies heavily on a relationship with materials and analogue processes, in particular the expanded field of print and historical photography. The tactile and physical aspects of these working processes are essential in her practice and expand the experience of looking, reflecting emotive acts of care rather than presenting a static reproduction. The time invested in the making of the work, alongside the careful choice of materials and the discarding of waste in her processes, has created a specific material language, which questions our current position and responsibility with regards to the environment.
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 co-runs The Sustainable Darkroom an artist run research, training and mutual learning programme, to equip cultural practitioners with new skills and knowledge to develop an environmentally friendly photographic darkroom practice
and is a student at The Royal College of Art, London, MA Print. She is also a member of The London Alternative Photographic Collective, The Walking Artists Network and The Kiln Photographic Studio.