Shan Turner-Carroll
The love of subtleties and repurposing, this idea of creating stories or storytelling was of real interest for me, and it’s a strong part of my practice.
Shan Turner-Carroll (b. 1987) is an Australian artist of Burmese descent. Deeply fascinated with unearthing tacit knowledge, his practice integrates mediums including photography, sculpture, performance and film. The artist’s practice interrogates both human and non-human nature, alternative forms of social exchange and interactions between art, artist and viewer: sending and receiving signals. His work can sing to snakes, serenade and signal with aliens, and barter with islands, rivers, and oceans. Looking towards the multiplicity of connections between body and landscape, site-specificity is key to his practice, not only in making, but rather in how an embodied methodology of making emerges upon each site and location. Turner-Carroll sees art-making as ritualistic and transformative, using play, humor and experimentation as key elements within his current practice.
His work is in the collection of Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Maitland, Australia; The Macquarie Bank Collection; The University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia; Curve Gallery, Newcastle, Australia.
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Shan Turner-Carroll in his studio in Sydney, Australia, 2022. Image courtesy of the artist and COMA, Sydney.
Edge Of The Garden, Zion, 2020
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Edge Of The Garden, Bortford
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Edge Of The Garden, Tara, 2020
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Edge Of The Garden, Ruby & Monique, 2020
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Edge Of The Garden, Nigel 2, 2020
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Edge Of The Garden, Nigel 1, 2020
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Edge Of The Garden, Myles, 2020
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Edge Of The Garden, Lija, 2020
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Edge Of The Garden, Mum, 2020
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Edge Of The Garden, Dad, 2020
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Untitled (Basketball Hoop), 2021
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basketball hoop, metal pole, costuming
95 x 285 x 128 cm / 37 7/16 x 112 3/16 x 50 3/8 inches
Shan Turner-Carroll
So Red It Looks Black, 20 October, 2023 - 25 November, 2023
Shan Turner-Carroll
The Snake, The Rock and The River, 15 July, 2022 - 20 August, 2022
Shan Turner-Carroll
Edge of the Garden, 23 October, 2021 - 20 November, 2021
Shan Turner-Carroll
Installation View at Where Shadows Meet, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Casula, Australia, 2022. Photo by Chantel Bann.
Shan Turner-Carroll
Installation View at 'Friends, relations, lovers and ancestors', SCA Gallery, Sydney, Australia, 2022. Photo by Document Photography.
Shan Turner-Carroll: Bodies On A Rock
Installation View, Verge Gallery, Sydney, Australia, 2022. Photo by Jessica Maurer.
Shan Turner-Carroll
Installation View at, Impulse To Action, Bundanon Trust, Bundanon, Australia, 2022. Photo by Zan Wimberly.
Shan Turner-Carroll: Edge Of The Garden
Installation View, Murray Art Museum Albury, Albury, Australia, 2020. Photo by Jeremy Weihrauch.
