TURNER GALLERIES... 2016 EXHIBITIONS

Arising from a curiosity about how the world is encountered and represented, Susanna Castleden's artworks question how the consequence and affect of global mobility has changed the way we see and perceive the world, and how this has necessitated alternative ways of visualising our position within it.

Works in this exhibition explore mobility specifically associated with leisure travel and what it means to be part of a world on the move.

Through scrutinising the visual language of traditional mapping, these works collapse both the materiality and structure of paper maps. The Scrunched Ball works are formed entirely from identical maps, discarded as contemporary mapping practices progress. Similarly Building the World (Mark II) collapses a map of the World Islands in Dubai back in on itself, presenting a three-dimensional version of a two-dimensional map of a site that itself is an abstraction of a map of the world. Using a drawing process that mimics a traditional mezzotint, Bermuda Sunset, Rottnest Sunrise tracks two antipodal points of the world as they emerge from, or retract into darkness.

With a background in printmedia, Susanna is interested in developing experimental processes associated with image transference and reproduction. This has included enormous 'reverse-frottage' rubbings of an aircraft wing and caravan, stencilling on folded camping tables, and screen prints traversed with thread and pins where the world is mapped through accumulated tracking information.

Throughout all, her fascination with mapping the world and the way we traverse it shines through. As she notes, "The relationship between art and cartography has a long and rich history. From the earliest maps of the Roman Empire to the work of contemporary artists such as Julie Mehretu and Guillermo Kuitca, artists and cartographers continue to utilise geographic and creative methodologies to visualise the world."

Susanna Castleden completed her BA (Art) (Honours) in 2002, a Master of Arts shortly thereafter, and in 2014 completed her PhD at RMIT University titled Wanderlust: mobility, mapping and being in the world. She has participated in many national exhibitions as well as winning prestigious art prizes including the 2011 Joondalup Art Prize, 2013 Burnie Print Prize, 2013 Bankwest Art Prize and the 2015 Linden Art Prize. This is her seventh solo exhibition and her first at Turner Galleries. Susanna's artworks can be found in several important art collections, such as the National Gallery of Australia, Artbank, University of WA, Wesfarmers, Kerry Stokes, Bankwest and Edith Cowan University.

bermuda sunset, rottnest sunrise gesso on rag paper 130 x 220cm 2014 $6,600
clipperton island map + varnish on rag paper 120 x 140cm 2013 $3,600	antipodes island maps on rag paper 110 x 100cm 2013 $3,000 sold to murdoch university
rottnest sunrise [from bermuda] gesso on rag paper 80 x 107.5cm 2016 $3,000	rottnest sunrise gesso on rag paper 80 x 107.5cm 2016 $3,000
warwick long bay gess + screen print on rag paper 100 x 120cm 2012 $4,600 soldto art gallery of WA	atlas pages [the middle east] ink on map 39 x 54cm 2013 $1,800
atlas pages [iberian peninsula] ink on map 39 x 54cm 2013 $1,800	atlas pages [eurasia] ink on map 39 x 54cm 2013 $1,800
atlas pages [east china] ink on map 54 x 39cm 2013 $1,800	atlas pages [the balkans] ink on map 54 x 39cm 2013 $1,800
bridging the world [mark II] screen print, watercolour + gesso on paper 70 x 60 x 60cm 2013 $4,600	folded globe watercolour on rag paper 50 x 50 x 50cm 2013 $4,000
scrunched ball [great sandy desert] identical paper maps 45 x 45 x 45cm 2013 $3,300	scrunched ball [unknown city] identical paper maps 45 x 45 x 45cm 2013 $3,300
scrunched ball [pacific ocean] identical paper maps 45 x 45 x 45cm 2013 $3,300	scrunched ball [albany] identical paper maps 45 x 45 x 45cm 2013 $3,300
scrunched ball [pacific ocean] identical paper maps 45 x 45 x 45cm 2013 $3,300