Lone White

Lone White is a Cairns, Far North Queensland based ceramic artist who has been awarded the Order of Australia Medal "for service to the creative arts as a ceramicist"

Career

For more than four decades, Lone White has been creating and exhibiting her award-winning ceramic artworks from Queensland's Far North, being artworks that have been exhibited regionally, nationally, and internationally
Her ceramic artworks are represented in private and public collections including:

the Australian National University, Canberra
the National Gallery of Australia
the Sanbao Ceramic Art Institute, Jingdezhen, China
the Delhi Blue Pottery Trust, India
the Queensland Government Collection
the Cairns City Collection

Service

Ceramics

Lone White joined the Cairns Potters Club in 1978, four years after the club was formed, and has been a member ever since.
It was reported, as part of the Potters Club's 50 year's celebrations in 2024, that Lone White had been president for the most of those 50 years and during that time, under her leadership, ceramics in Far North Queensland has grown, the numbers of ceramacists coming through the Cairns Potters Club was still growing, and by the time they were celebrating 50 years, the Club had held 16 National 'Melting Pot' exhibitions.
The Club's National Jubilee 'Melting Pot' exhibition was a celebration of all that had been achieved for ceramics by what is one of Cairns' longest running artists initiatives for Far North Queensland.

Art gallery

In the 1980's, Lone White played an active role in a successful Far North Queensland regional campaign to establish a public Regional Art Gallery in Cairns, including, in 1987, coordinating the publication of the book "Art in North Queensland":

with a forward from the Mayor of Cairns, Alderman Ron E Davis, commending the art works contained in the publication as making the case for establishing a public art gallery
with an explicit endorsement by then Chairman of Trustees, Queensland Art Galleries, R Austin, noting the absence of, and identifying a need for a public art gallery to display the art of Far North Queensland

Arts advocacy

In the 1990's Lone White was a founding member of the Visual Arts Association of Far North Queensland being an organization that has since linked art organizations across the Far North Queensland fostering awareness of the region's visual arts and artists, also raising issues relating to the development of visual arts in the region.
Lone has edited a Visual Arts Newsletter since 1993 and has appeared in the media as the President of the Visual Arts Association over the years, for instance:
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Honours

In 2011 Lone White received an Australia Day Award for Arts and Culture and in 2023 she was awarded an Order of Australia Medal for her service to the creative arts