Suzanne McDonnell
An artist’s catalogue that treats the work like a gallery would.
Twenty-five works across five series, 2010 to 2025, on near-black — each series runs as its own chapter with a viewer, and every work is catalogued the way a gallery label would have it: year, medium, millimetres.
Sculpture and painting, Canterbury. The site’s job is to make a studio visit feel worth asking for — so the enquiry line offers exactly that, by appointment.
- What was made
- Art direction
- Web design
- Front-end build
- Built with
- Static build
- Cloudflare Workers
Website design in Christchurchfrom $1,500, fixed before it starts
What it does
The work runs in series, like chapters
Five series, each with its own numbered viewer — eight works of Social Tectonics, four of Dear Ursula — ending with a plain “end of series” marker and the way into the next. The site reads like a catalogue, not a feed.
Every work labelled like a gallery would
Year, medium, dimensions in millimetres — acrylic on board, 615 by 910 — for every piece that has them, and an honest em-dash where they don’t. It is the difference between a portfolio and a catalogue.
All twenty-five works in one wall
The full grid — twenty-five works, five series, fifteen years — each tile carrying its series and year, so a curator can survey the whole practice in one scroll.
The enquiry is for the right three things
A work, a commission, or a studio visit — with the phone number written out and viewings by appointment. No cart on an artist’s site; a conversation instead.
