Artist’s Statement

Jo Sutton is a contemporary Queensland artist with a passion for ‘zooming in’ on the the commonplace and the familiar to shine a spotlight on the beauty in the ‘everyday’. Sutton’s art encourages us all to focus on the elements that make up our rich, rural heritage and that create the very rhythm of our lives. It’s the history and the heart of the country in which we live. In ‘portrait style’ depiction, Sutton highlights the unique and the distinctive encountered in a country existence.