
Susan Cohn: Techno Craft
National Gallery of Australia 2000
Su san Cohn
Way Past Real, 1994
105 doughnut bracelets on tiles
fine gold plate, brass, anodised aluminium, natural aluminium, fine gold leaf, Dutch gold leaf, gold dust, gold paint
installation: 520 x 240 cm; each bracelet: 3.2 x 13 cm
installation view, Anna Schwartz Gallery
Su san Cohn
Way Past Real, 1994
(detail) 105 doughnut bracelets on tiles
fine gold plate, brass, anodised aluminium, natural aluminium, fine gold leaf, Dutch gold leaf, gold dust, gold paint
installation: 520 x 240 cm; each bracelet: 3.2 x 13 cm
Su san Cohn
Cohndom box (prototype), 1999
silver and gold
5.9 x 5.9 x 0.9 cm
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Su san Cohn
Survival Kit #3 and Survival Kit #4, 2000
anodised aluminium, 750 gold, high impact polymer styrene, Oakley sunglasses
Su san Cohn
Black Intentions: Susan Cohn, 2003
The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Photo: Shannon McGrath
Su san Cohn
The Ring Cycle, 2002-03
81 finger rings: 2.4 x 2.4 x 1 cm to 3 x 3 x 1 cm
aluminium poles: 420 x 90 x 90 cm
The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Photo: Shannon McGrath
Su san Cohn
Catch Me, 2003
silver bolt catches
dimensions variable
The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Photo: Shannon McGrath
Su san Cohn
second thoughts, 2008
installation view, Anna Schwartz Gallery
Photo: Shannon McGrath
Su san Cohn
New Precious: Water #1, 2008
water, glass pipettes, 750 silver, silastic tubing, ABS plastic doughnut, silk cord
variable dimensions
Photo: Shannon McGrath
Su san Cohn
Waste Not Want Not: Rosette #1, 2008
Grange wine caps, 750 gold
22 x 12.5 cm
Photo: Shannon McGrath
Su san Cohn
Waste Not Want Not: Rosette #2, 2008
Comtessa wine caps, 750 gold
12.5 x 8.5 cm
Photo: Shannon McGrath
Su san Cohn
New Precious: Airbag #1, 2008
polyurethane, automatic inflator, oral inflator, press studs
185 x 11 cm
Photo: Shannon McGrath
Su san Cohn
All Welcome: Gate, Paper tributes, Lectern, 2015
TarraWarra Biennial, 2016
Photo: Andrew Curtis
Su san Cohn
Wrong way, 2000
anodised aluminium
30 x 30 cm
Su san Cohn
All Welcome: Gate, Paper tributes, Lectern’, 2015
TarraWarra Biennial, 2016
Photo: Andrew Curtis
Su san Cohn
Identity Humdrum, 2017
(detail) 925 silver, card table, 49 bracelets
card table: 64 x 73 x 73 cm
Photo: Heather McDonald
Su san Cohn
Again and Again, 2017
Moleskin plain journals, fine silver bookmarks, video text projections
dimensions variable
Photo: Zan Wimberley
Su san Cohn
Vanilla Repeats, 2017
aluminium, silver, copper, diamond, string, gold leaf, wood, stainless steel, paint
11 doughnuts, variable dimensions
Photo: Zan Wimberley
Su san Cohn
This is So Boring, 2017
aluminium suggestion box, sound
90.5 x 30.5 x 30.5 cm
Photo: Zan Wimberley
Su san Cohn
This is So Boring, 2017
(detail) aluminium suggestion box, sound
90.5 x 30.5 x 30.5 cm
Photo: Zan Wimberley
Born Sydney, Australia 1952
Lives and works in Melbourne
Susan Cohn is an artist and designer of jewellery and metalwork. She creates her work through Workshop 3000, the studio she founded in 1980. Cohn brings a conceptual approach to her work together with an interest in contemporary culture and technology.
Cohn has a long-standing practice working across the art-craft-design divide. Her research based and collaborative process has included working with mathematicians, aerospace engineers and scientists to channel new technologies into her designs.
Su san Cohn
Boring, very boring
12th August – 2nd September 2017
Anna Schwartz Gallery
Su san Cohn
UNcommon moments
27th August – 3rd October 2015
Anna Schwartz Gallery
Su san Cohn
second thoughts
7th March – 5th April 2008
Anna Schwartz Gallery
Su san Cohn
1 protest / 1 object
25th May – 5th June 2004
Biennale of Sydney
Su san Cohn
Boring Beige, 2017
HIPS plastic doughnuts, plinth, Perspex
49 doughnuts: 3.4 x 13.3 cm diameter (each); plinth: 151 x 50 x 50 cm
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