Synopsis
Everlasting Happiness is a tongue-in-cheek engagement with the idea of love as a political concept. It follows an anarcho-mystical quest that intertwines the supernatural wonder of love with the spectacle of war. On a global scale it is a battle against the pathology of the forces driving towards a dystopia. At a personal level it reveals the struggle to love the most distant.
Biography
Deborah White is a multi-media artist based in Melbourne, Australia. She completed a MFA at Monash University in 2015. Deborah has exhibited her work in numerous national and international exhibitions, screenings and festivals. Her video installations have been exhibited at Queensland Centre for Photography (2011) and Bundoora Homestead Art Centre (2016). Collaborative projects have been shown at Transmediale in Berlin (2009) and her videos have screened at the Channels Festival (2013 & 2022), Adelaide Festival Centre (2018) and Counihan Gallery (2018).
White has participated in the Bayside City Council’s Billilla (2010) and the Mornington Peninsula Shire’s Police Point (2019) artists-in-residence programs. She has been a finalist in the Blake Prize (2016), Linden Art Prize (2016), Darebin Art Prize (2017) and Fisher’s Ghost Art Award (2022). She has won prizes at the Cancer Council of Victoria Art Awards (2007), Linden Postcard Prize (2004) and Absurd Art House Film Festival (2022).
White has participated in the Bayside City Council’s Billilla (2010) and the Mornington Peninsula Shire’s Police Point (2019) artists-in-residence programs. She has been a finalist in the Blake Prize (2016), Linden Art Prize (2016), Darebin Art Prize (2017) and Fisher’s Ghost Art Award (2022). She has won prizes at the Cancer Council of Victoria Art Awards (2007), Linden Postcard Prize (2004) and Absurd Art House Film Festival (2022).