Publications are often produced on Sutton Gallery artists in the form of monographs and exhibition catalogues or to accompany a specific body of work.

This varied printed matter can provide invaluable insight into an artists practice and projects.

Here is a selection of titles that we recommend spending time with.

Nick Selenitsch / Linemarking

Essay By: Shelley McSpedden
Date: March, 2010

In late 2009, Nick Selenitsch and an assistant spent four days drawing in chalk in four locations chosen for their public prominence in and around central Frankston: outside Frankston Library, at White Street Mall, along Pier Promenade, and outside the Cinema Centre on Wells St. This catalogue is a documentation of that project.

Sara Hughes: Feedback Runaway

Essays by: Christoph Tannert and Christina Vegh
Publisher: Revolver VVV, Berlin
Monograph, 64 pages, full colour, 24 x 28 cm, Softcover, Deutsch/Englisch

The publication documents and discusses in detail the installation works of Sara Hughes from the past seven years. Her work has an ongoing concern with 'what we see' and 'how we see' and she is interested in the structures via which information gets transacted; particularly in relation to our media saturated world that has become mediated and regulated by information flow. Her current projects investigate imagery and data relating to patterns of behaviour and configurations of spectacle and national identity as portrayed through the use of colour, consumerism and propaganda.
Published in conjunction with the artists residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2009

Aleks Danko Artist Book: Songs of Australia Volume 18

Author: Aleks Danko
Publisher: Aleks Danko
Date: 2009

Aleks Danko has collected overheard remarks and collated them into this intriguing artist book SONGS OF AUSTRALIA VOLUME 18: A NEW VALLEY OF TEARS. Their combined effect provides biting criticism of the absurdities of conventions within the use of an "Australian national language."

 

Aleks Danko: Songs of Australia Volume 1-16

Author: Kelly Gellatly, Bruce James, Jacqueline Thomas
Exhibition Catalogue
Publisher: National Gallery of Victoria
Date: 2004

This catalogue was created to accompany Aleks Danko's exhibition SONGS OF AUSTRALIA VOLUME 16 - SHHH, GO BACK TO SLEEP (an un-Australian dob-in mix) at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) in 2004. This catalogue provides an important overview of Aleks Danko's Songs of Australia cycle vol 1-16. The exhibition was the culmination of his two year NGV Contempora Fellowship (2002-2004). 

Stephen Bush: Gelderland

Authors: Ashley Crawford and Liza Statton
Exhibition catalogue
Publisher: SITE Santa Fe
Date: 2007

This beautiful catalogue captures the depth of Stephen Bush's first solo exhibition in the United States and continues to be relevant to the artists' ongoing practice. With two insightful essays and innumerable colour plates, this text embodies the depth of Bush's eclectic practice.

Jon Cattapan: Possible Histories

Author: Chris McAuliffe
Monograph
Publisher: The Miegunyah Press
Date of publication: 2008
Pages: 230

Jon Cattapan: Possible Histories traces Cattapan's art from his student days to the present. Beginning with the Dadaist grotesquerie and surrealist erotica of Melbourne's 1970s punk scene, it traces Cattapan's psychic themes of isolation and longing into later explorations of postmodern cities and global information flows. These culminate in the artist's efforts to reintroduce a political consciousness into his art. Using 'slow information'- the laborious task of painting- he makes painting a way of thinking, processing and reinvesting ethical positions into art.

Emerging from the author's twenty-year friendship with the artist, this book includes extensive interviews and commentaries from the artist, along with numerous illustrations of his source materials and working processes.

Gordon Bennett

Author: Kelly Gellatly, with contributions by Bill Wright, Justin Clemens and Jane Devery
Exhibtion catalogue
Publisher: National Gallery of Victoria
Date: 2007

Gordon Bennett has achieved international critical acclaim for the complex ways in which his work engages with historical and contemporary questions of cultural and personal identity, with a specific focus on Australia's colonial past and its postcolonial present.

The catalogue to accompany the exhibition includes a conversation between the artist and long term associate Bill Wright, as well as thorough analysis of Bennett's practices and complex body of work to date from Kelly Gellatly, Justin Clemens and Jane Devery.