Graham Sutherland An Unfinished World

This publication accompanies the exhibition Graham Sutherland: An Unfinished World, curated by 2011 Turner Prize nominee George Shaw. It brings together over 80 rarely seen works on paper, featuring the artist's early Pembrokeshire landscapes from the 1930's, the devastation works of the intervening war years and Sutherland's return to the Welsh estuaries and coastlines in the 1970's.Far from traditional studies of landscape and environment, Sutherland's works not only depict but also exude a world that is as dark as it is magical, as elusive as it is recognisable. Strangely bereft of human life, the works navigate the real and imagined; where country lanes loop into each other, horizon lines fold into foregrounds, and nothing is as it seems. This carefully selected group of works celebrate one of the most compelling artists of his generation.Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Modern Art Oxford, 10 December 2011 – 18 March 2012.