cartoonist and illustrator, studied under Rayner Hoff at East Sydney Technical College. An article entitled 'The Revival of Sculpture’ in Art in Australia (March 1927) commented that her work, along with that by Vic Cowdroy , Mavis Mallison, Joan Morrison and Mollie Rohr, 'had a fresh and original outlook which invested it with considerable interest’ – even though Eileen McGrath was the star. White drew two comic illustrations for Angela Thirkell’s article, 'A Healthy Mind in a Clean Body: illustrating how we may be forgiven for deriving a little indelicate amusement from physical culture propaganda’, Home 1 September 1928, 41, i.e. 'Monumental as Mrs. Mulder was in her early stages, she was, if possible, even more revolting when reduced in bulk’ and 'She taught him the eye exercises till be became a He-Man again’. She also drew a column-length title illustration for Thirkell’s 'The Prince of Adventurers’, about a film seen 'when I was in London last autumn’ that arrived from Paris with the hero’s name changed from Casanova to Roberto Ferrara, 1 November 1928, 27.

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Writers:

Kerr, Joan

Date written:

1996

Last updated:

2007