Susan Dorothea White - Artist, Sculptor - Sculpture - The Long Arm of the Law (detail)

The Long Arm of The Law - sculpture assemblage of carved wood, fabric and mixed media by contemporary Australian artist Susan Dorothea White, exhibited in the High Court of Australia and Montserrat Gallery, New York (detail)

Susan Dorothea White
The Long Arm of The Law, 1987-88 (detail)
carved wood, fabric and mixed media, 250 x 200 x 50 cm

Humor, more pointed than funny, is the thread of continuity throughout Susan Dorothea White's art, regardless of medium. A case in point is The Long Arm of the Law. It is created with exactly what the title states... a very long black-robed arm extends out into the gallery room with a legal document in its hand!

Dorothy Roatz Myers, Art Talk (New York) July 1994