Darren Sylvester: carve a future, devour everything, become something

Publication details

260 x 295 mm, portrait
304 pages
Fully illustrated in colour
ISBN: 9781925432541
Category: Contemporary art
RRP: $49.95
Published: March 2019

Author and/or Editor name/s

Maggie Finch and contributors

Author and/or Editor bio/s

MAGGIE FINCH is Curator, Photography, at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

Year of publication

2019

Publisher

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Abstract

Darren Sylvester has developed a unique practice over the past two decades, working across photography, video, installation, performance and music. This volume (including flexi-disc) covers thematically the breadth of his oeuvre, drawing out some of the artist’s primary concerns: hopes and dreams, middle-class conundrums, the banality of work, loss and longing, love and romance, fear of death.

Featuring major essays by Anthony Carew and Maggie Finch, the publication also includes statements by the artist on selected works, as well as contributions from authors offering a range of perspectives. Darren Sylvester: Carve a Future, Devour Everything, Become Something is a timely record of the work of a singular Australian artist.