Xavier is a motivated artist / designer / maker. This London born artist is mostly self taught, regaining life skills through creating in a post head injury (Peckham 1985) confused fluxus limbo state.
He has shown commitment to a number of subject areas in his creative rehabilitation. Glass, Recycling and reenergising objects, Cycling, Art, Creativity, Educational inspiration, the human brain, it’s process’s and learning systems, the NHS and it’s carers. He has completed a university degree in 2008, his ambition immediately prior to receiving his 1985 brain trauma. He survived that one too!
Following his A Head in Art, a look at seminal works of Art that have contributed to artistic developments over the last 200 years, he is continuing his journey working on Cohedia, the mind expanding cityscape, an on going project of Xavier’s.
He has shown commitment to a number of subject areas in his creative rehabilitation. Glass, Recycling and reenergising objects, Cycling, Art, Creativity, Educational inspiration, the human brain, it’s process’s and learning systems, the NHS and it’s carers. He has completed a university degree in 2008, his ambition immediately prior to receiving his 1985 brain trauma. He survived that one too!
Following his A Head in Art, a look at seminal works of Art that have contributed to artistic developments over the last 200 years, he is continuing his journey working on Cohedia, the mind expanding cityscape, an on going project of Xavier’s.
Xavier White CV
Artist in Glass
http://xavierwhite.weebly.com
Installations / Art Actions
2022
Feb Robert Walks Through Water (3,4) Portrait of Bob Wade OBE donated to National Chess Library, De Montfort University Special
Collections Library.
2021
Nov 1st-14th COP Tastic Hopes & Failures Touring Glasgow with pop up climate related art actions selected works from WANE Orrery for Scotland’s Climate Fringe Week.
Sept 18-26 The Artist Travels: On a Pilgrimage to Glasgow…Touring Glasgow with pop up climate related art actions selected works from WANE Orrery for Scotland’s Climate Fringe Week.
Sept 27 Presented ‘Artists Inspired By Archives’ to Archiving Masters group at Glasgow University.
Sept 4 Words Are Not Enough: A Flat Earth Orrery a pop up exhibition at The Museum Of The Mind, Royal Bethlem Hospital, Beckenham
2020 Bethlem Bumper 10K Cycle ride in aide of Nurses and Midwives Cavell Trust.
2019
December Handle with Care Glass Art Auction for the Cavell Nurses Trust. London South Bank University.
July In Loving Memory celebratory / memorial stained glass windows series installed at Kings Collage Hospital, London.
June – August Umbrellas’ of Wellbeing ‘Heart of Wellbeing at Maudsley Hospital, London.
May Umbrella’s Of Wellbeing’s Tree Cathedral, Residenza Psichiatricae Centro Diurno, Reggio Emilia, Italy + Corto Blanco, Venice.
17 April Umbrella’s Of Wellbeing’s Pathway to Nourishment Bethlem Royal Hospital
14 February Anti-Valentines Cards making workshop at Museum of Mind.
Annual Exhibitions:
2019
16 Jan -27 April The Anatomy of Melancholia. Bethlem Museum of the Mind
Melancholia 2: (After Durer) oil on canvas
2018
Sept Kings Collage Hospital, Neurosciences residency on going.
4-8th June Mind Expanding Metaphors: Creativity and Wellbeing at LSBU
2017 Blessed Are The Carers stained glass panel & lightbox donated & mounted in Charles Polkey Ward, Kings Collage Hospital.
Blessed Donations
Charles Polkey Ward, Kings College Hospital London
2017
Blessed Donation:
November SS Giovanni e Paolo, Ospitali, Venice Italy
June San Servolo Island, Venice Italy
March Phosphenes of Qualia
A fine art glass exhibition. London South Bank University
2016
December. Blessed Open Studios
(Old Chocolate Room) LSBU
June- December. My Human Campaign: Cohedia Summer Fair
Series of installations at London South Bank University
February- July Youtopia: Visions of the past, present and future
Large Cohedia Canvas, and A case for treatment: Cohedia Goes Cornell
April Inclusion and Recovery Works – Social Inclusion and Recovery Centre, Deptford, London.
April. Hosted and Curated Cityscapes paintings by Ben Smith at Xavier’s home Gallery
Feb – Sept Outside In : Radical Craft National exhibition on tour until Sept 2017
Verrelic Spires. Voted Radical Craft Artist of the Month, April 2016
2015
December – ongoing
May - June
Arrival of the Magi : Verrelic Spires installation
Bethlem Chapel Royal Bethlem Hospital, Beckenham, Kent
Cohedia Wish You Were Here Xx
Large-scale installation of sculpture and paintings
Bethlem Gallery, Royal Bethlem Hospital, Beckenham, Kent
2014
Xavier White’s Full Circle
Sculpture exhibition ORTUS Learning and Events Centre,
The Maudsley Hospital, South London
2013
Jump For Gold
Installation of stained glass panels Royal Standard GastropubBlackheath Standard
2012
In An Instant
Brian Injury Awareness Week 138 Gallery, New Cross, London
Survivors: the guilt and the arrogance
London Metropolitan University, Whitechapel, London
Greenwich Open Studios
2011
Greenwich Open Studios
Regrouping: Verrelic Spires Installation
London Metropolitan University.
2010
Greenwich Open Studios
2009
What’s on at the Globe tonight?
Glass Auction, Bonhams, London
La Guerre des Verres
Glass Chess Pieces and Table Chesspoint exhibition Northampton Museum and Art Gallery
Pearls of Cognition and other works exhibited and auctioned for
Headway, National Head Injury charity 30th Anniversary Pearl Auction Solicitors Tower Hill, London.
2008
Cohedia, a mind expanding cityscape guided tour, 12 minute film – Summer Open exhibition
Glynn Vivian, Gallery, Swansea
2006
We Need to Fund and Find the Answers installation
Chris Carey’s Collections, Beckenham
Cohedia, the Mind Expanding Cityscape
Albany Community Centre Deptford X Art festival and Architecture Week
“All the Worlds a Stage”
Glass model of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre Theatre Museum, Covent Garden, London, selected winner of the “Inspired By” competition run by the Victoria and Albert Museum
2003
Installation of Sculpture Greenwich Cinema, London National Brain Injury Awareness Week
1999-2001
A Head in Art : exhibition retracing the developments within art history over the last 200 years, to coincide with National Brain Injury Week.With school visits in 2001
The Blackheath Brain Injury Unit, Blackheath hill, Greenwich.
1988 -1999
Honk for Health NHS
a sponsored cycle / performance to show public support for the National Health Service from Glasgow to London
Self produced Films:
Cohedia, a mind expanding city scape:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmqxrBtEnfU
Verrelic Spectacle Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doSubA7hHDI
Verrelic Spectacle by Night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emNsX4cnU80
Xavier White’s Full Circle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnqhH1Rs40s http://art-corpus.blogspot.co.uk/2014_07_01_archive.html
Press
2017: Cheating Death and Drawing identity: Twenty years of art at Bethlem Hospital. 12.Oct 2017
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/disability-41109442
2017: South Bank Issue 22 Spring 2017
https://alumni.lsbu.ac.uk/connectedmagazine
2016: Outside In: Artist of the Month April 2016 http://outsidein.org.uk/?location_id=4897
Art Fund Museum of the Year 2016 Finalists – in pictures The Guardian newspaper, 29 June, 2016 https://www.theguardian.com/culture-professionals-network/gallery/2016/jun/29/art-fund-museum-of-the-year- 2016-rankin-pictures
Interview with Maria Balshaw at the Bethelm Museum of the Mind BBC Arts Newsnight Series 3 BBC 2 Friday 8th July, 2016 23.00pm
LSBU artist in residence announcement
http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/about-us/news/artist-residence-exhibition
Radio 4: 24/2/2016 Interviewed on Sunday programme article at Bethlem Royal Hospital
EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
White,X & Hardy, S (2017) Phosphenes of Qualia: A glass fine art exhibition catalogue. researchopen.lsbu.ac.uk. DOI10.18744/PUB.000806
White, X. & Hardy, S. (2016). My Human Campaign: Cohedia Summer Fair. Artist in Residence. Exhibition Catalogue. researchopen.lsbu.ac.uk. DOI 10.18744/PUB.000278
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
2018 -2019 Kings College Hospital, Neuroscience Department
2016-2018 LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY
School of Health Sciences, Providing workshops and Exhibitions. Founding member of the LSBU Peoples Academy
PUBLICATIONS
Hardy, S.E., Malby, R., Hallett, N., Farooq, A., Chamley, C., Young, G., White, X.H. and Turner, W., (2018) Introducing a People’s Academy into Higher Education: A coproduction approach to sustained well-being. Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning, 8(1), pp.70-79.
Hardy, S. and White X,H. (2017) Promoting Care Giving Interventions through the Dance of Caring Persons (After Pross et al.). J Comm Pub Health Nurs 3:148. doi:10.4172/2471-9846.1000148
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Hardy S & White X (2018) The Creative Caring project. Enhancing practice conference, Basel Switzerland. 21-24th August, 2018
White X & Hardy S (2018) Introducing an artist in residence scheme into higher education. Enhancing practice conference, Basel Switzerland. 21-24th August, 2018
Hardy S & White X (2016) Enhancing performance praxis through compassion and resilience in health and social care professional: A dance of wonderment. Enhancing Practice Conference, Queen Margaret’s University, Edinburgh Scotland.31.8.2016 – 2.9.2016
Artist in Glass
http://xavierwhite.weebly.com
Installations / Art Actions
2022
Feb Robert Walks Through Water (3,4) Portrait of Bob Wade OBE donated to National Chess Library, De Montfort University Special
Collections Library.
2021
Nov 1st-14th COP Tastic Hopes & Failures Touring Glasgow with pop up climate related art actions selected works from WANE Orrery for Scotland’s Climate Fringe Week.
Sept 18-26 The Artist Travels: On a Pilgrimage to Glasgow…Touring Glasgow with pop up climate related art actions selected works from WANE Orrery for Scotland’s Climate Fringe Week.
Sept 27 Presented ‘Artists Inspired By Archives’ to Archiving Masters group at Glasgow University.
Sept 4 Words Are Not Enough: A Flat Earth Orrery a pop up exhibition at The Museum Of The Mind, Royal Bethlem Hospital, Beckenham
2020 Bethlem Bumper 10K Cycle ride in aide of Nurses and Midwives Cavell Trust.
2019
December Handle with Care Glass Art Auction for the Cavell Nurses Trust. London South Bank University.
July In Loving Memory celebratory / memorial stained glass windows series installed at Kings Collage Hospital, London.
June – August Umbrellas’ of Wellbeing ‘Heart of Wellbeing at Maudsley Hospital, London.
May Umbrella’s Of Wellbeing’s Tree Cathedral, Residenza Psichiatricae Centro Diurno, Reggio Emilia, Italy + Corto Blanco, Venice.
17 April Umbrella’s Of Wellbeing’s Pathway to Nourishment Bethlem Royal Hospital
14 February Anti-Valentines Cards making workshop at Museum of Mind.
Annual Exhibitions:
2019
16 Jan -27 April The Anatomy of Melancholia. Bethlem Museum of the Mind
Melancholia 2: (After Durer) oil on canvas
2018
Sept Kings Collage Hospital, Neurosciences residency on going.
4-8th June Mind Expanding Metaphors: Creativity and Wellbeing at LSBU
2017 Blessed Are The Carers stained glass panel & lightbox donated & mounted in Charles Polkey Ward, Kings Collage Hospital.
Blessed Donations
Charles Polkey Ward, Kings College Hospital London
2017
Blessed Donation:
November SS Giovanni e Paolo, Ospitali, Venice Italy
June San Servolo Island, Venice Italy
March Phosphenes of Qualia
A fine art glass exhibition. London South Bank University
2016
December. Blessed Open Studios
(Old Chocolate Room) LSBU
June- December. My Human Campaign: Cohedia Summer Fair
Series of installations at London South Bank University
February- July Youtopia: Visions of the past, present and future
Large Cohedia Canvas, and A case for treatment: Cohedia Goes Cornell
April Inclusion and Recovery Works – Social Inclusion and Recovery Centre, Deptford, London.
April. Hosted and Curated Cityscapes paintings by Ben Smith at Xavier’s home Gallery
Feb – Sept Outside In : Radical Craft National exhibition on tour until Sept 2017
Verrelic Spires. Voted Radical Craft Artist of the Month, April 2016
2015
December – ongoing
May - June
Arrival of the Magi : Verrelic Spires installation
Bethlem Chapel Royal Bethlem Hospital, Beckenham, Kent
Cohedia Wish You Were Here Xx
Large-scale installation of sculpture and paintings
Bethlem Gallery, Royal Bethlem Hospital, Beckenham, Kent
2014
Xavier White’s Full Circle
Sculpture exhibition ORTUS Learning and Events Centre,
The Maudsley Hospital, South London
2013
Jump For Gold
Installation of stained glass panels Royal Standard GastropubBlackheath Standard
2012
In An Instant
Brian Injury Awareness Week 138 Gallery, New Cross, London
Survivors: the guilt and the arrogance
London Metropolitan University, Whitechapel, London
Greenwich Open Studios
2011
Greenwich Open Studios
Regrouping: Verrelic Spires Installation
London Metropolitan University.
2010
Greenwich Open Studios
2009
What’s on at the Globe tonight?
Glass Auction, Bonhams, London
La Guerre des Verres
Glass Chess Pieces and Table Chesspoint exhibition Northampton Museum and Art Gallery
Pearls of Cognition and other works exhibited and auctioned for
Headway, National Head Injury charity 30th Anniversary Pearl Auction Solicitors Tower Hill, London.
2008
Cohedia, a mind expanding cityscape guided tour, 12 minute film – Summer Open exhibition
Glynn Vivian, Gallery, Swansea
2006
We Need to Fund and Find the Answers installation
Chris Carey’s Collections, Beckenham
Cohedia, the Mind Expanding Cityscape
Albany Community Centre Deptford X Art festival and Architecture Week
“All the Worlds a Stage”
Glass model of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre Theatre Museum, Covent Garden, London, selected winner of the “Inspired By” competition run by the Victoria and Albert Museum
2003
Installation of Sculpture Greenwich Cinema, London National Brain Injury Awareness Week
1999-2001
A Head in Art : exhibition retracing the developments within art history over the last 200 years, to coincide with National Brain Injury Week.With school visits in 2001
The Blackheath Brain Injury Unit, Blackheath hill, Greenwich.
1988 -1999
Honk for Health NHS
a sponsored cycle / performance to show public support for the National Health Service from Glasgow to London
Self produced Films:
Cohedia, a mind expanding city scape:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmqxrBtEnfU
Verrelic Spectacle Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doSubA7hHDI
Verrelic Spectacle by Night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emNsX4cnU80
Xavier White’s Full Circle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnqhH1Rs40s http://art-corpus.blogspot.co.uk/2014_07_01_archive.html
Press
2017: Cheating Death and Drawing identity: Twenty years of art at Bethlem Hospital. 12.Oct 2017
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/disability-41109442
2017: South Bank Issue 22 Spring 2017
https://alumni.lsbu.ac.uk/connectedmagazine
2016: Outside In: Artist of the Month April 2016 http://outsidein.org.uk/?location_id=4897
Art Fund Museum of the Year 2016 Finalists – in pictures The Guardian newspaper, 29 June, 2016 https://www.theguardian.com/culture-professionals-network/gallery/2016/jun/29/art-fund-museum-of-the-year- 2016-rankin-pictures
Interview with Maria Balshaw at the Bethelm Museum of the Mind BBC Arts Newsnight Series 3 BBC 2 Friday 8th July, 2016 23.00pm
LSBU artist in residence announcement
http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/about-us/news/artist-residence-exhibition
Radio 4: 24/2/2016 Interviewed on Sunday programme article at Bethlem Royal Hospital
EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
White,X & Hardy, S (2017) Phosphenes of Qualia: A glass fine art exhibition catalogue. researchopen.lsbu.ac.uk. DOI10.18744/PUB.000806
White, X. & Hardy, S. (2016). My Human Campaign: Cohedia Summer Fair. Artist in Residence. Exhibition Catalogue. researchopen.lsbu.ac.uk. DOI 10.18744/PUB.000278
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
2018 -2019 Kings College Hospital, Neuroscience Department
2016-2018 LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY
School of Health Sciences, Providing workshops and Exhibitions. Founding member of the LSBU Peoples Academy
PUBLICATIONS
Hardy, S.E., Malby, R., Hallett, N., Farooq, A., Chamley, C., Young, G., White, X.H. and Turner, W., (2018) Introducing a People’s Academy into Higher Education: A coproduction approach to sustained well-being. Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning, 8(1), pp.70-79.
Hardy, S. and White X,H. (2017) Promoting Care Giving Interventions through the Dance of Caring Persons (After Pross et al.). J Comm Pub Health Nurs 3:148. doi:10.4172/2471-9846.1000148
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Hardy S & White X (2018) The Creative Caring project. Enhancing practice conference, Basel Switzerland. 21-24th August, 2018
White X & Hardy S (2018) Introducing an artist in residence scheme into higher education. Enhancing practice conference, Basel Switzerland. 21-24th August, 2018
Hardy S & White X (2016) Enhancing performance praxis through compassion and resilience in health and social care professional: A dance of wonderment. Enhancing Practice Conference, Queen Margaret’s University, Edinburgh Scotland.31.8.2016 – 2.9.2016
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The link below takes you to a number reviews of a number of exhibitions and flyers for ebvents at Xavier White's.
http://art-corpus.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=Xavier+White
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http://art-corpus.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=Xavier+White
What is this creativity thing? a short meander through human creativity.
In the early 1980's Xavier was the bassist in Bazooka Joe, a Herne Hill / Dulwich based group with Justin Liquid Anderson (guitar, vocals and songwriting) and John Sim on drum.This session was recorded at Xavier home Guernsey Grove, Herne Hill in 1981.
https://soundcloud.com/justin-likwid-anderson/bazooka-joe?fbclid=IwAR2cz1yDzZVYearF9u5ZH8PyPikWcByxGlvh7d8bY4Kpg7Fs3SG8PUgyWCA
https://soundcloud.com/justin-likwid-anderson/bazooka-joe?fbclid=IwAR2cz1yDzZVYearF9u5ZH8PyPikWcByxGlvh7d8bY4Kpg7Fs3SG8PUgyWCA
