Leading Queensland artist and ‘rogue archivist’ Sam Cranstoun‘s first decade work is now available in print, launching at the Institute of Modern Art.
Curator Hamish Sawyer chats with Sam Cranstoun about the new book release, Sam Cranstoun: You Are Neither Here Nor There. The publication documents key projects from Cranstoun’s first decade of practice, responds to the 2023 survey exhibition of the same name at the University of the Sunshine Coast Art Gallery, and looks to the future of the Cranstoun’s ongoing exploration of modernism’s legacies.
The publication includes timely scholarship that addresses labour, the archive and history, and the image of the modern world in Cranstoun’s work. It opens with a conversation between Cranstoun and Natalya Hughes, followed by essays from curator Hamish Sawyer and Professor Andrew McNamara.
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Sam Cranstoun is an artist whose practice uses painting, drawing, installation, video and sculpture to examine how contemporary image culture shapes our understanding of the past. Cranstoun is represented by Milani Gallery in Brisbane, and Sullivan+Strumpf in Sydney, Melbourne and Singapore. Cranstoun is currently the Studio 11 Artist in Residence at Artspace in Sydney
Hamish Sawyer is the Curator at Linden New Art, Naarm/Melbourne. Hamish was the curator of Sam Cranstoun’s early career survey exhibition ‘You are neither here nor there’ at the University of Sunshine Coast Art Gallery in 2023, and is a contributor to the monograph of the same name.
Between Dystopia and Utopia, 2019, acrylic on cardboard. Photo: Oliver Thomas.
