Published to accompany Brook Andrew’s 2015 exhibition at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, Sanctuary: Tombs of the Outcasts is both an exhibition catalogue and a compact investigation into how nations build memory.

Andrew assembles archival photographs, maps, military records, colonial documents and found images into uneasy proximity, breaking apart the separation between Australian military commemoration and the violence of colonisation. The exhibition was explicitly explorative of the stories that official remembrance leaves out: Indigenous histories, frontier violence, the politics of Anzac Day, and the human cost of war more broadly. Andrew makes the archive unstable — documents become objects, memorials become evidence, and apparently unrelated histories begin contaminating one another. The catalogue reproduces that logic through dense black-and-white imagery, archival material and installation documentation. 

Ian Potter Museum of Art / Brook Andrew Studio, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 2015. First edition. Hardback. Black illustrated boards with ribbon marker. Light shelf wear and rubbing to boards, with minor bumping to corners and edges. Internally clean and unmarked; binding firm. Very good condition.