Annabel Sutton is an emerging artist from the gateway to the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales, on land outside the town of Coolah, at the intersection of Kamilaroi and Wiradjuri Country.

Annabel’s practice moves fluidly between printmedia, painting, sculpture, and installation, engaging with complex histories and the psychologically geographical dimensions of belonging. Brought up on a cattle farm held in a valley in the central west of NSW, Annabel experienced the seasonality and brutality of the Australian landscape. This upbringing has led her to explore in a post-colonial setting her conceptions of rurality, identity, and belonging.

Her recent work reflects upon ideas of ownership, the path to decolonisation, and the systems of power and politics that perpetuate polarity. Within this evolving discourse she considers the ontological landscape between rural and urban contexts — spaces where identity and geography are continuously redefined in a post colonial society. Annabel’s practice seeks to define the invisible frameworks that structure our relationship to place, drawing attention to how narratives of place both connect and estrange. Through inverting and reconstructing the assumed language of mapping, ordering and assembly she unpacks how we inhabit, represent, and relate to environments within a multicentred society.