Del Kathryn Barton : the highway is a disco (deluxe edition)

Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2017. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. xii, 121, illustrated. The deluxe edition, limited to 100 copies, specially bound, with an original signed inkjet print by Del Kathryn Barton, signed by the artist. A mint copy of a rare edition which is sold out.

‘On the occasion of the exhibition Del Kathryn Barton The Highway is a Disco the National Gallery of Victoria presents a Collector’s Edition art book with accompanying print, Of Pink Planets, 2014 by Del Kathryn Barton. Del Kathryn Barton: The Highway is a Disco includes some of the artists most personal works, as well as photographs of her studio and sketchbooks. Curator Pip Wallis writes about symbolism in Barton’s imagery, while Peggy Frew explores women’s experience and the film RED, 2016, in an interview with the artist. Of Pink Planets, 2014 by Del Kathryn Barton. The stunning inkjet print was processed, proofed and printed by CPL Digital in Melbourne, and is signed and numbered by the artist. Edition of 100’ – the publisher

About the artwork

‘In this work a creature with the head of a wallaby and the tail of a snake looks as though it might suckle from one of the woman’s five breasts. The breast is a dual organ, both of pleasure and sustenance, and multiple breasts suggest abundant life energy. Symbolically, the multi-breasted woman recalls the mythological icon Artemis of Ephesus, goddess of the wilderness, the hunt, wild animals and fertility. In some interpretations of the iconography, the nodes on Artemis’s chest are said to be the testes of bulls sacrificed to her. This fluidity of gender, human and animal forms is a strong current in Barton’s art.’ – the publisher