“Quality, beauty, originality — the compositions of Susan Dorothea White convey her frankness and openness to the onlooker”
Exhibition, Nice (translated)
SUSAN DOROTHEA WHITE is an internationally exhibiting artist living and working in Sydney. She is a painter, sculptor, printmaker, and author of Draw Like Da Vinci – published in English, French, Danish and Hungarian.
artist Susan Dorothea White working on clay for large bronze sculpture of Stretching the Imagination for Buhl Collection
working on commission for The Buhl Collection

With a career spanning 50 years, the artist has held solo exhibitions in New York, Amsterdam, Cologne, Munich, Sydney, and Adelaide. She held her first solo in 1962 in her home town Broken Hill.

Collections where her work is represented include The National Gallery of Australia, The Buhl Collection (New York), The Hechinger Collection (International Arts & Artists, Washington DC), and Majdanek Museum (Lublin). She has represented Australia in numerous international exhibitions and biennales.

A multifaceted artist, she produces work in a range of media from acrylic and watercolour to mixed-media sculpture assemblage, carving, and bronze. Her printmaking techniques include lithography, etching, and woodblock. Drawing is the foundation of her art — her sketchbook is always at hand.

The First Supper by Susan Dorothea White; acrylic painting on panel, 1988; after Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper The First Supper