Lone White (born 1942) is a Cairns, Far North Queensland based ceramic artist who has been awarded the Order of Australia Medal "for service to the creative arts as a ceramicist"
Since the 1980s, Lone White has produced ceramic artworks from Queensland's Far North, that has been shown in local, national, and international exhibitions
Her ceramic artworks are represented in private and public collections including:
Lone White joined the Cairns Potters Club in 1978, four years after the club was formed, and has been a member ever since.
It was reported, as part of the Potters Club's 50 year's celebrations in 2024, that Lone White had been president for the most of those 50 years and during that time, under her leadership, ceramics in Far North Queensland has grown, the numbers of ceramacists coming through the Cairns Potters Club was still growing, and by the time they were celebrating 50 years, the Club had held 16 National 'Melting Pot' exhibitions.
The Club's National Jubilee 'Melting Pot' exhibition was a celebration of all that had been achieved for ceramics by what is one of Cairns' longest running artists initiatives for Far North Queensland.
In the 1980's, Lone White played an active role in a successful Far North Queensland regional campaign to establish a public Regional Art Gallery in Cairns (i.e. Cairns Regional Art Gallery), including, in 1987, coordinating the publication of the book "Art in North Queensland":
In the 1990's Lone White was a founding member of the Visual Arts Association of Far North Queensland being an organization that has since linked art organizations across the Far North Queensland fostering awareness of the region's visual arts and artists, also raising issues relating to the development of visual arts in the region.
Lone has edited a Visual Arts Newsletter since 1993 and has appeared in the media as the President of the Visual Arts Association over the years, for instance:
In 2011 Lone White received an Australia Day Award for Arts and Culture and in 2023 she was awarded an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for her service to the creative arts