Cartonography FNQ
Cartonography is a collection of Australian fruit and vegetable cartons. Cartonography FNQ (2019) was a section of the collection from Far North Queensland (FNQ) arranged according to location and installed as part of the exhibition The National 2019: new Australian art at Carriageworks (curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham).
Cartonography is an ongoing project to collect, map and catalogue a specific type of packaging ephemera to try and make sense of its vernacular, and of its potential to convey truthful knowledge – profound, mystic or banal – about a carton’s origins and creators.
Image: Installation view Cartonography FNQ at Carriageworks, 2018. Photography by Zan Wimberley.
Image above: installation view. Photography Zan Wimberley.
Image above: Sean Rafferty
Sean Rafferty 2023