18th Biennale of Sydney

Book

Together with the Biennale of Sydney and the 2012 artistic directors, Catherine de Zegher and Gerald McMaster, Collider art directed and designed the 400 page catalogue for this major Australian art event.

The visual and thematic record of the 2012 Biennale encapsulates the themes of the exhibition and reproductions of works of over 200 artists through a 160 page split binding device that gives the reader the ability to reconfigure the intended curation to create new relationships and meanings between the works.

The books are available for a limited time at The Art Gallery of New South Wales, The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and at the Biennale Art Shop on Cockatoo Island.

The catalogue cover, a patchwork of bright colour blocks on black under the red Biennale mark

Art direction and design for the 18th Biennale of Sydney’s 400 page catalogue.

Print spread pairing cracked pale ice with a sculpted white figure sitting in still water

18th Biennale of Sydney catalogue opens across a green schoolroom with two blackboards

Essay spread facing a black and white photograph of a ship's bow towering over a figure

2012 catalogue spread with a circular blue map disc set against a page of pale text

Aerial landscape photographs above a half-moon map insert, from the Biennale catalogue

Print spread of a hot orange gradient sitting above dancers photographed against black

Four aerial photographs across a spread, from red river country to a scattering on sand

18th Biennale of Sydney essay pages set in columns beside small black and white artworks

A hand lifting the round map insert to reveal a rust-red image printed underneath

Stacked catalogue sections showing artist names running along the trimmed page edges

Close-up of image captions and a pink ribbon marker lying across the printed page

Typography detail from the 2012 Biennale catalogue, body text beside a patterned page

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