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Sue Kneebone is a multidisciplinary visual artist with a career spanning more than twenty years. Informed by deep research, Kneebone fearlessly tackles disquieting subject matters, asking viewers to confront the troubling aspects of Australia's colonial history that still haunt us. Characterised by a distinctively Australian Gothic aesthetic, her often-wry work emerges from a creative practice that encompasses assemblage and montage. This monograph is the first publication dedicated to tracing the breadth and diversity of Kneebone's research and practice. Through their respective lenses, curators Elle Freak and Andrew Purvis, and artists James Tylor and Nicole Clift, deftly explore different aspects of her artistic approach. Elle Freak examines notions of the homely and unhomely in Kneebone's oeuvre, while James Tylor focuses on the photomontages in which the artist acknowledges her family's - and her own - complicity in settler colonisation and its consequences. Andrew Purvis considers the ocean worlds present in Kneebone's more recent work - an expansion of her colonial critique that interrogates empire - while Nicole Clift's QandA and timeline illuminate the different stages and influences in the artist's practice. The essays are accompanied by stunning reproductions, highlighting the essential aspects and combined potency of Sue Kneebone's prolific artworks.

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Elle Freak is the Associate Curator of Australian Paintings and Sculpture at the Art Gallery of South Australia, Tarntanya/Adelaide. She has contributed to a range of exhibitions and publications on Australian art, and most recently co-authored the publication and co-curated the exhibition Dangerously Modern: Australian women artists in Europe 1890-1940 (2025). Andrew Purvis is the Director of Adelaide Central Gallery, which is part of Adelaide Central School of Art. With over a decade of experience in the arts, Andrew has worked as an artist, arts writer, and curator. He has curated over 60 exhibitions. He has also contributed to a previous South Australian Living Artist monograph, writing about the practice of Roy Ananda (2021). James Tylor is an Australian multidisciplinary artist and writer. His research, writing, and artistic practice focus on Kaurna Indigenous culture from the Adelaide Plains region of South Australia and, more broadly, European colonial history in Southern Australia. James works and lives in Canberra, in the Australian Capital Territory. Nicole Clift is a South Australian visual artist and writer. Nicole is also one half of the collaborative duo Tandem Projects with Rotterdam-based artist Inneke Taal. Nicole has contributed writing to fineprint magazine, the 2024 Neoterica exhibition publication, various solo exhibitions, and was the lead editor for the Golden Goose: 10 years of Floating Goose Studios publication.

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