Format: 290 x 230 mm,
Hardback. cloth with deboss cover
Edition: 750 copies
ISBN: 978-0-6453076-4-1
208 pages

Jemima Wyman: Deep Surface is a major monograph surveying three decades of the LA based Palawa artist’s visually and politically charged practice. Brimming with colour, pattern and dense visual detail, Wyman’s work examines camouflage, protest, collective identity and the politics of perception.

Working across painting, collage, textiles, performance, video and installation, Wyman investigates how surfaces operate both optically and politically. Her compositions draw on found images of protest movements, masked figures and patterned fabrics, exploring how camouflage and repetition can unify bodies while destabilising the act of looking. Throughout, she treats pattern not as decoration but as a tactical and conceptual device, foregrounding its power in contexts of democracy and dissent.

Designed by Evi-O.Studio and inspired by Wyman’s Propaganda textiles swatch books, the publication interweaves four critical essays with vivid patterned waterfall pages, creating an immersive and materially rich reading experience.

Deep Surface stands as a landmark publication, offering critical depth alongside bold visual impact for collectors, institutions and readers of contemporary art. Texts include essays by Dr Hanna Rose Shell, Dr Chari Larsson and Katherine Dionysius, an interview between Dr Yuval Etgar and Jemima Wyman, and a foreword by Vanessa Van Ooyen.