Little Baby Cheeses

Artist
Jo White
Dates
19 Feb—16 Mar 2025

The next solo exhibition from celebrated Armidale-based contemporary painter Jo White brings the foxy ladies of Fountain Lakes to Murrurundi in a playful tribute to the beloved television comedy Kath & Kim.

Brought to life with White’s painterly panache, fabulous eye for detail and irreverent sense of yumour, select works from her Little Baby Cheeses series have now arrived at our Eora/Sydney gallery and can be secured by request before they hightail it to Murrurundi for this month’s opening.

From the statue of little baby cheeses that gives the series its title to the oodles of hot suggestions and myriad special acquaintances that have crossed the squeaky door at Whitehorse Court, White’s latest work deftly immortalises the objects and moments that have emerged from the show as cultural touchstones and become lodged in the Australian comic lexicon. And of course, there’s a joker in the pack.

This nice, different and unusual series arrives after a banner year in which White presented a trifecta of sold-out solo shows across the Michael Reid network and was selected for the Sulman Prize’s Salon des Refusés at S. H. Ervin Gallery in Sydney.

Alive with brilliant colour, wit and lashings of loving nostalgia, White’s work is attuned to the way certain objects attain totemic significance with resonances specific to a place or pop-cultural moment.

For all art lovers and collectors, hornbags and Warnie fans, we’ve got one word to say to you: crack open the footy franks and Tia Maria and register your interest, tout suite!