Lone White

Lone White
Lone White 2022
Born1942 (age 82–83)
Viborg, Denmark
EducationCairns Technical and Further Education College & Kelvin Grove College, Brisbane[1]
Known forCeramic art, community arts advocacy
Notable workStoneware Vase 1983[2] & Lasting Impressions Ceramic Mural 1988"[3]
AwardsOrder of Australia (OAM)
Websitehttps://www.lonewhite-ceramics.com/

Lone White OAM (born 1942) 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"[4]

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[5]

Her ceramic artworks are represented in private and public collections[5] [6] [7] including:

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.[8]

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.[8]

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.[9]

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 (i.e. Cairns Regional Art Gallery),[1] including, in 1987, coordinating the publication of the book "Art in North Queensland":[2]

  • 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[2]
  • 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[2]

Arts advocacy

In the 1990's Lone White was a founding member of the Visual Arts Association of Far North Queensland[1] being an organization that has since linked art organizations across the Far North Queensland fostering awareness of the region's visual arts and artists[10], also raising issues relating to the development of visual arts in the region.[11]

Lone has edited a Visual Arts Newsletter since 1993[12] and has appeared in the media as the President of the Visual Arts Association over the years, for instance:

  • Wivell, Danaella (23 June 2018). "Artists denied public expressions of interest for CPAC". The Cairns Post. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 6 December 2025.
  • Vue, Toby (13 February 2021). "Far North arts advocate Lone White raises concerns about Cairns Art Gallery". The Cairns Post. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 6 December 2025.

Honours

In 2011 Lone White received an Australia Day Award for Arts and Culture[1] and in 2023 she was awarded an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for her service to the creative arts[4]

Publications

Newsletters

  • VAA Newsletter (Editor: Lone White, 1993–present). [12]

Articles

Books

  • Cairns Art Society (1987). Art in North Queensland - selected works from the Cairns City Collection. Cairns: Cairns Art Society. pp. 41, 86. ISBN 0-7316-0624-8.
  • Cairns Potters Club (1990). Lasting Impressions: A Ceramic Mural (Booklet). Cairns, Qld: Cairns Potters Club. – Commemorative booklet - 1988 Bicentennial ceramic mural project.
  • White, Lone (2004). White, Bill; Gurtner, Yetta (eds.). Three Decades of Ceramics in Far North Queensland: An Informal History of the Cairns Potters Club. Cairns, Qld: Cairns Potters Club. ISBN 0-646-44441-7.

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Lone White". Danes in Australia. Retrieved 23 November 2025.
  2. ^ a b c d Cairns Art Society (1987). Art in North Queensland - selected works from the Cairns City Collection. Cairns: Cairns Art Society. pp. 41, 86. ISBN 0-7316-0624-8.
  3. ^ Vavrova, Daniela. "Experimenting with Pottery". Cairns Museum. Cairns Historical Society. Retrieved 25 November 2025.
  4. ^ a b ""Far North Queensland Investiture Ceremony, 12 May 2023"". Government House Queensland. Government House Queensland. Retrieved 2025-11-23.
  5. ^ a b "Artist Showcase: Lone White". Cairns Art Gallery. Retrieved 23 November 2025.
  6. ^ "Lone White". Art in Tropical Australia (via National Library of Australia). Archived from the original on 2016-08-20. Retrieved 23 November 2025.
  7. ^ a b "Lone White CV". National Library of Australia Web Archive. Archived from the original on 2005-07-21. Retrieved 23 November 2025.
  8. ^ a b Guzman Gonzalez, Isabella (29 November 2024). "Crafted from clay". Cairns Local News. Retrieved 25 November 2025.
  9. ^ "Melting Pot 2024 - Cairns Potters Club 50th Jubilee National Ceramics Exhibition". Cairns Regional Council. Retrieved 25 November 2025.
  10. ^ "Visual Arts Association of Far North Queensland Inc". Arts and Culture Map. Cairns Regional Council. Retrieved 8 December 2025.
  11. ^ "Home". Visual Arts Association of Far North Queensland Inc. Visual Arts Association of Far North Queensland Inc. 2025. Retrieved 8 December 2025.
  12. ^ a b "Newsletter / Visual Arts Association of Far North Queensland". National Library of Australia. 1993. ISSN 1324-1745. Retrieved 25 November 2025.
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