b. 1967, Tiverton, England

James White’s photographic oil paintings depict the quotidian clutter of modern living with the care and precision of Dutch Golden Age still lives. Keen to distance himself from the genre of photorealism, White contends that his works ‘end up looking photographic... because I want to make a representative painting that’s as styleless as possible’. And yet, smooth grey hues and an eerily absent human presence determine White’s style, his compositions’ often-hastily arranged objects evocative of unseen narratives in the artist’s daily life.

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