Sarah Contos Presents: The Long Kiss Goodbye

Sarah Contos
Australia
25 May 1978

Sarah Contos Presents: The Long Kiss Goodbye
2016
screenprint on linen, canvas and lamé, digital printed fabrics and various found fabrics, PVC, poly-fil, glass, ceramic and plastic beads, thread, artists' gloves
Place made
Sydney
Medium
screenprint on linen, canvas and lamé, digital printed fabrics and various found fabrics, PVC, poly-fil, glass, ceramic and plastic beads, thread, artists' gloves
Dimensions
610.0 x 330.0 x 25.0 cm
88.0 x 340.0 x 105.0 cm (box)
Credit line
Gift of the James and Diana Ramsay Foundation for the Ramsay Art Prize 2017
Accession number
20173S16
Signature and date
Signed and dated verso, sewn in red thread onto rectanglar piece of quiliting attached l.l., "Sarah/ Contos/ 2016" (see image in multimedia).
Media category
Sculpture
Collection area
Australian sculptures
Copyright
© the artist, courtesy of STATION Gallery, Melbourne

  • Sarah Contos was born in 1978 in Perth, Western Australia, and draws on her experience in costume design and dramaturgy in the creation of work that spans painting, printmaking, collage, sculpture and installation.

    Sarah Contos Presents: The Long Kiss Goodbye was created for the Art Gallery of South Australia’s inaugural Ramsay Art Prize, in 2017, and was awarded the $100,000 acquisitive prize. The work is a twenty-first-century quilt, featuring screen-printed textiles, soft sculptural components and hand-stitched fabrication and embroidery. It is an autobiographical work and in it the artist has sought to capture previous series of her own works and combine them in a textile diary, creating a multi-panelled retrospective of her life in art. Sarah Contos’s ‘colossal quilt’ is populated with snapshots from daytime TV soap operas, the golden age of Hollywood and the ruins of classical antiquity – a contemporary tableau which celebrates powerful women and the feminist art movement.

    Leigh Robb, Curator of Contemporary Art


  • [Book] AGSA 500.