2011-03-06
DAVID WADELTON: ICONS OF SUBURBIA

Catalogue design for the exhibition David Wadelton: icons of suburbia which, through painting and photography, presents contemporary cultural icons of everyday life and mass media.

Wadelton’s vibrant Techno-Pop inspired paintings create visual puns using a variety of collage-style images, using super flat, hyper realistic painting techniques, executed with precision and accuracy.

Over 300 photographs are also exhibited on-masse for the first time in a gallery context. A source of inspiration for his paintings, the photos range from black and white images of the 1970s and 1980s to contemporary digital suburban snapshots from the 2000s, and documents the changing world of inner suburban Melbourne. 

The tightly-packed 48pp catalogue showcases the full range of paintings in the exhibition as well as a selection of Wadelton’s photographs.

Essays, offering fresh perspectives on the artist’s work, are presented as graphic features using white text on a black background, greatly contrasting the luminous colours of the work.

Images fill the remaining pages edge-to-edge, highlighting the technical accuracy of the paintings and the greatly varying intensity of subjects within them. 

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