Shan Turner-Carroll

Shan Turner-Carroll (b. 1987) is an Australian artist of Burmese descent. Shan’s practice responds to both site and situation specificity, and integrates mediums including photography, sculpture, performance and film. The subjects his works have related to include both human and non-human nature, alternative forms of social exchange and interactions between art, artist and viewer. Looking towards the multiplicity of connections between body and landscape, site-specificity is key to his work. Not only in making, but rather in how an embodied methodology of making emerges upon each site and location.

His practice questions current modes of living, and explores alternative methodologies and modes of education. A deep philosophy within his work is thinking through doing. Over the past three years his work has evolved from still photography into a multidisciplinary practice that corrodes the boundaries historical and behavioural conventions have erected between art and life. Shan uses the ritual of art making and its transformative agency to question how art can find meaning outside of the institution of the gallery. At the core of his practice is the conviction that art has a meaningful and active role within contemporary, industrial, globalised societies in which the paradigm of the individual is most present.

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Photo by Garry Trinh

Edge Of The Garden, Zion, 2020
archival digital ink jet print, framed, edition of 6
115 x 79 cm / 45 5/16 x 31 1/8 inches
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Edge Of The Garden, Tara, 2020
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115 x 79 cm / 45 5/16 x 31 1/8 inches
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Edge Of The Garden, Ruby & Monique, 2020
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115 x 79 cm / 45 5/16 x 31 1/8 inches
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Edge Of The Garden, Nigel 2, 2020
archival digital ink jet print, framed, edition of 6
115 x 79 cm / 45 5/16 x 31 1/8 inches
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Edge Of The Garden, Nigel 1, 2020
archival digital ink jet print, framed, edition of 6
115 x 79 cm / 45 5/16 x 31 1/8 inches
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Edge Of The Garden, Myles, 2020
archival digital ink jet print, framed, edition of 6
115 x 79 cm / 45 5/16 x 31 1/8 inches
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Edge Of The Garden, Lija, 2020
archival digital ink jet print, framed, edition of 6
115 x 79 cm / 45 5/16 x 31 1/8 inches
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Edge Of The Garden, Mum, 2020
archival digital ink jet print, framed, edition of 6
115 x 79 cm / 45 5/16 x 31 1/8 inches
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Edge Of The Garden, Dad, 2020
archival digital ink jet print, framed, edition of 6
115 x 79 cm / 45 5/16 x 31 1/8 inches
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Untitled (Trampoline), 2021
trampoline frame, curtains, crutches, mudbrick, hat, helmet, stone, piping, metal poles, costuming
230 x 430 x 180 cm / 90 9/16 x 169 5/16 x 70 7/8 inches
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Untitled (Basketball Hoop), 2021
basketball hoop, metal pole, costuming
95 x 285 x 128 cm / 37 7/16 x 112 3/16 x 50 3/8 inches
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