Sydney Beaches: Saturated Edge: Jon Setter
3 October - 15 November 2025
Bondi 1
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8 WALL GALLERY is proud to announce the much-anticipated Sydney Beaches: Saturated Edge by photomedia artist, Jon Setter, opening October 3.

 

Jon Setter (b. Detroit, Michigan, 1989) takes the beach as a chance to notice manmade environments. The New York City-based photographer, who lived in Sydney for a decade, has forged an international reputation based on pictures that reframe details of urban landscapes as fine-tuned compositions of geometry and hue, evoking hard-edged painters as much as his fellow lensmen. In “Sydney Beaches: Saturated Edge,” iconic stretches of Sydney and suburban coastline—Manly, Dee Why, Bronte, Coogee, Maroubra, Narrabeen, Tamarama, Bondi and Palm Beach—become backdrops to both human constructions and the labyrinth of the artist’s mind. 

- Daniel Felsenthal, excerpt from Exhibition Essay

 

Jon Setter is an Australian-American photomedia artist who currently resides in New York City. Receiving Masters of Fine Arts from National Art School, Sydney in 2018, his work has been exhibited across Australia and internationally, including solo shows at Galerie Minimal, Berlin (2020), the Ballarat Foto Biennale (2023), and Kennedy Contemporary, California (2024).

Awards include the International Color Awards (2018), Luxembourg Art Prize (finalist, 2019), International Photography Awards (finalist, 2019) and Bowness Photography Prize (finalist, 2023). Setter's works are collected across Sydney private collections, including City of Sydney and Museum of Australian Photography, as well as Henry Ford Health in the USA. Two books have been published about his work — The Urban Text and The Ballarat Text — with his next publication on Sydney Beaches currently in production.

 

 

Please join us on Thursday, October 23, 6 - 8 pm, to farewell Jon back to New York and the Sydney Beaches exhibition.

 

With thanks to our drinks sponsors, SuperGay Spirits for the SuperGay Vodka mini martinis.

Sydney Beaches: Saturated Edge runs from Friday, October 3 to Saturday, November 15, 2025.

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