ACCEPTATIO

Chrissie Cotter Gallery March 11 - 22, 2015

Interpreting personal stories from the absurdist drama called ‘life’, the intimate nature of Vicki White’s work is redolent with metaphor & meaning, inviting the viewer to inhabit the psychological space within the imagery & to consider the mysterious enigma of the emotional state of the human psyche.

Working from life as a painter & photographer, she integrates a cinematic/theatrical process in the construction of her work gathering props & models, directing the 'action' to dramatise the symbolism inherent in the imagery she depicts. 

The exhibition ‘Acceptatio’ is a memorial to a long journey with infertility & a path that didn't lead to motherhood. The oil paintings on canvas & pigment prints on cotton rag paper display a quiet devotional quality that White believes is strongly influenced by the religious imagery present in her formative years in Catholic homes of her childhood, & religious cards from a prayer book. Her late Paternal Grandmother's influence from her devotion to the Roman Catholic Church's Virgin Mary, specifically Our Lady of Sorrows, or Mother of Sorrows (latin 'Mater Dolorosa' one of the titles of her paintings), & one of the variety of names by which Mary is referred to, seemed to emerge once the artist reflected on the work that she had produced.