SARI SUTTON
Cluster Photography & Print Exhibitor | 2025
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Sari Sutton is a visual artist and photographer working on Ngunnawal Country, Canberra, Australia. Her work, which incorporates digital, film, and alternative processes, crosses genres—from documentary (landscape, street, and portraiture) to the conceptual and staged. Through perceptive and astute observation, her work offers insight into the state of the world, power, agency, choice, and consequence—along with the forces that shape our experience of being human.
Sari has been recognised as a finalist in the Australian Photography Awards, Head On, Australian Life, the Paris Photography Prize (PX3), and 1854/British Journal of Photography. Her work was included in the 2020 Loud and Luminous volume Equality, featuring the work of 100 Australian women photographers. Sari is currently a 2024 Dark Matter artist-in-residence at Canberra’s PhotoAccess, where she is developing a body of experimental darkroom work inspired by the celestial.
Visual artist working across photomedia, including lens-based (digital and film) and alternative processes.
“My practice explores contemporary environmental and social issues and the state of the world through diverse genres.
Set in the ancient, dramatic Targangal (Mt Kosciuszko) region of the Australian Alps, Avalanche examines the unfamiliar psychological terrain of a world disrupted by the pandemic and confronted by the intensifying impacts of global warming. The rapid escalation and compression of climate- and COVID-19-related events, both in Australia and globally, are forcing a re-evaluation of how we live in—and with—the natural environment.”
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“The series reflects on the shock of disruption to our status quo and the fragility and transience of what we so often take for granted. Drawn from an ongoing photographic exploration in and around the Snowy Mountains—a region of Australia with an extraordinary and unique yet highly vulnerable alpine ecosystem—Avalanche invites contemplation of accepted notions of progress, the contradictions and existential challenges of the Anthropocene, and the themes of human agency, legacy, choice, and consequence.”