Austin Martin White

Austin Martin White's dense and tactile compositions intricately examine hierarchical frameworks within Western art history. His work 'Exodus' references historical imagery from a New Orleans archive, meticulously dissecting ethnographic content's role in perpetuating colonial subjugation and racial biases. Through a distinct and singular artistic process, White undertakes a transformation of these visual fragments, which are deeply rooted in racialised phantasms and narratives of violence. By reclaiming the colonial image the artist redefines its meaning through abstraction — wresting control of representation from the dominion of prejudicial historiography — with his idiosyncratic use of color and texture, which emerges from an innovative technical process of extruded relief painting.