Lone White

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Lone White
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Lone White 2022
Born1942 (age 82–83)
Viborg, Denmark
EducationCairns Technical and Further Education College & Kelvin Grove College, Brisbane [1]
Known for Ceramic art, community arts advocacy
Notable workStoneware Vase 1983 [2] & Lasting Impressions Ceramic Mural 1988" [3]
Awards Order of Australia (OAM)
Website https://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]

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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

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 Clubs 50 years 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]

Honours

In 2011 Lone White received an Australia Day Award for Arts and Culture [1] and in 2025 she was awarded an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for her service to the creative arts [4]

Publications

Newsletters

Articles

Books

References

  1. 1 2 "Lone White". Danes in Australia. Retrieved 23 November 2025.
  2. ↑ 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. 1 2 ""Far North Queensland Investiture Ceremony, 12 May 2023"". Government House Queensland. Government House Queensland. Retrieved 2025-11-23.
  5. 1 2 "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. 1 2 "Lone White CV". National Library of Australia Web Archive. Archived from the original on 2005-07-21. Retrieved 23 November 2025.
  8. 1 2 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. ↑ "Newsletter / Visual Arts Association of Far North Queensland". National Library of Australia. 1993. ISSN 1324-1745. Retrieved 25 November 2025.
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