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SELECTED WRITINGS BY THE ARTIST

‘Warm Farewell, Edmund Capon (11 June 1940-13 March 2019)’, Art + Australia Online

'John Young: Eternal Transformation' for Eternal Transformation exhibition catalogue, Philip Bacon Galleries 25 August - 19 September 2015

Phaptawan Suwannakudt: Wakeful Moment’ for Catching the Moment: Each Step is the Past, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney. Published in Last Words, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, 2010, pp. 108-115

 ‘Locality Flux’, (On Fluxus), Like Magazine, Faculty of Art, Design & Communication, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, No. 13, Summer issue, Melbourne, 2000, pp.16-20

'David Strachan: Two Women in a Landscape', Artist's Choice, Art & Australia, 36, No. 1, September issue, 1994, pp. 56-57

Propositions for the Polychrome Paintings’, Kerb Your Dog, No. 12, Sydney, 1992 

 'The Life of Energies (for Nikola Telsa and the early Oswald Spengler)', On The Beach, No. 2, Sydney, 1983

'Anything Still', Art & Text, No. 1, Melbourne, 1983

'The Disguised Saint: Bragaglia' with Terry Blake, Photo-Discourse, 1982

'From Three Facts to', Art & Text, No. 4, 1982

'On Some Alternatives to the Code in the Age of Hyperreality, the Hermit and the City Dweller' with Terry Blake, Art & Text, No. 2, Winter issue, 1981

 

 

SELECTED WRITINGS ABOUT THE ARTIST

 

Genevieve TRAIL, ‘Plurality of Memory: History Projects, Diaspora and Nationalism’, Di’van | A Journal of Accounts, 8, September 2020

Cher TAN, ‘Interview #115 -  John Young Zerunge’, Liminal Magazine, 22 September 2019 

Lauren Carroll HARRIS, ‘The riots history erased: reckoning with the racism of Lambing Flat’, The Guardian, 7 August, 2018

John CLARK, ‘John Young: Painting Simulacra and a Re-envisaged History’, in Zhang Dali Permanence and Impermanence, China Nationality Art Photograph Publishing House, 2017 pp. 131 – 151

Robert C. MORGAN, 'John Young at Pearl Lam GalleriesArt China, Issue 5, June 2016, pp. 84 - 85 (Chinese Version) 

Yasmin NGUYEN, 'Through the Eyes of the Wolf: John Young Interview', Vault, Issue 3, April 2013, pp. 24-27

Jacqueline LO, 'Diaspora, Art and Empathy', John Young: The Bridge and the Fruit Tree - A Survey', Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, 2013, pp. 19-43

Dr Carolyn BARNES, 'Aesthetics and Memory Work in the Recent Painting of John Young', John Young: The Bridge and the Fruit Tree - A Survey', Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, 2013, pp. 55-65

10 Chancery Lane, 'In Conversation with John Young: The Macau Days 2012'

Thomas J. BERGHUIS, 'John Young: Situational Ethics', Art & Australia, 48, No. 3, Autumn 2011, pp. 440-443

Sylvia Dominique VOLZ, 'John Young / Bonhoeffer in Harlem', John Young / Bonhoeffer in Harlem, Alexander Ochs Gallery and St Matthaus-Kirche, Berlin, July 2009, pp.59-91

Carolyn BARNES, 'Towards a layered imaginary', John Young, Craftsman House Thames and Hudson, 2005, pp. 25-67

John CLARK, 'Introduction', John Young: Three Propositions, Pruss & Ochs Gallery, Berlin, 2003, pp.12-19

 

 

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