Elaine Brewer-White is a ceramic sculptor who has lived and
worked in B.C. for the past 20 years.Her work is represented by
galleries across Canada and into the U.S.A. and is featured in numerous
corporate and private collections. Elaine's current independent
work is based on the figure, where moments of solitude or simple
interactions between people celebrate the wonder of the human condition.This
work seeks to further explore social behaviors and life-affirming
activities through the use of humor and irony.
Elaine spent 10 years performing with the Calgary and Vancouver
Theatresports Leagues where her improv training helped shape her
attitudes towards humor and love of the narrative.
Her pieces take on a wide variety of shapes from the small individual
figures, which sit off the edge of furniture to three dimensional
wall murals.
She is married to physical comedian Gordon White who is still working
with Cirque Du Soleil, starring in their latest show 'Kooza' as the 'King.'
They raise their two beautiful charming intelligent
children in an exceedingly normal vinyl-sided mini-malled suburb
of Langley, B.C. Elaine has always found an unending source of material through observing
her day-to-day life "Art as therapy?" Hmmm
- or -
Elaine Brewer-White creates this work
because - when she's in her studio working, her life makes sense
- some vague questions of 'being' are answered - time ceases to
exist - and she feels she is in some way contributing to the vast
workings of the universe - since she can't afford to contribute
to her RRSP