COMA is pleased to present an online viewing room of six new telepathic drawings by Shan Turner-Carroll, alongside the artist’s second solo exhibition, titled ‘The Snake, The Rock and The River’, in the Darlinghurst gallery, on view through 15 July to 20 August 2022.
In the development of this series of work, I also wanted to collaborate with psychics, mediums, clairvoyants and people with intuitive abilities. I would propose a question surrounding the making of new work. I wanted to know if they might be able to see what work I might make in the future. What features it might have, colours location or concepts. After meeting with a number of them, I would see if there was a thread that would run through the different readings, and with this information I would help manifest this work into being.
Shan Turner-Carroll
Shan Turner-Carroll
Nick and Shan tumbling in the snow, 2022
watercolour on paper
30 x 20 cm / 11 13/16 x 7 7/8 inches / 40 x 30 cm / 15 3/4 x 11 13/16 inches (framed)
I had my first session with a psychic called Nick. The information that was coming was a mixture of what he saw, heard and felt but also ways in which I needed to do this for myself. He said that I needed to visit this particular site and receive information on my own.
Read the landscape. These things that we don’t have a language to talk about.
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Listen to your senses.
Walk less with your eyes and more with your feet… They are commutative in a different way. Silence is your friend.
Shan Turner-Carroll
Shan Turner-Carroll
You are an angel, 2022
oil pastel and graphite on paper
42 x 29.5 cm / 16 9/16 x 11 5/8 inches / 52 x 40 cm / 20 15/32 x 15 3/4 inches (framed)
Shan Turner-Carroll
Sending you Bundanon, 2022
watercolour and charcoal on paper
42 x 29.5 cm / 16 9/16 x 11 5/8 inches / 52 x 40 cm / 20 15/32 x 15 3/4 inches (framed)
The body becomes a conduit and antenna to send and receive information. Telstra rock is linked to these invisible waves, Telstra rock becomes a fictional antenna.
The psychics are conduits and antennas. I am a conferrer and antennae.
The thing that relates all these ideas are the land and our relationship to the land.
Shan Turner-Carroll
