This is a major survey of the work of Melbourne-based artist John Cattapan. Cattapans practice has reflected and contributed to developments and themes of contemporary Australian art practice such as cultural identity, urbanism, the use of hybrid media and collaboration. Since the 1970s Cattapan has pursued ideas relating to the city, spectatorship, disasters, cinema and digital culture, and boarders and boundaries. With a thematic rather than a chronological focus, The drowned world will include a selection of paintings and works on paper that show the development of Cattapans practice over the last three decades, with particular attention given to his collaborative projects.
