Artist Statement
Carly (they/them) is a Townsville-based artist, graphic designer, and web tinkerer. They are known to explore themes of otherness with muted or no colours across various mediums such as ink, watercolour, virtual reality photography, sculpture, collage, vector illustrations, art mods for 90s video games, and augmented reality animations. They studied design and illustration at James Cook University and the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt.
They have had 10 years of full-time graphic design work balanced with passionate volunteering for local and international initiatives and companies.
They aim always to do their best and help as many people as possible - always learning, and always trying to solve problems.
Selected Works
For my work see my artwork or design pages.
Education
- James Cook University, Bachelor of New Media Art, 2009-2012.
- Digital Visual Art, New Media Design
- University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt, Diploma, 2011.
- Illustration, Visuelle Gestaltung im Raum
Solo Exhibitions
- 2014 to 2015 - Perc Tucker Regional Gallery Mental Buffet
Group Exhibitions
- 2024 – Murky Waters Studio Strange Fruits exhibition
- 2023
- 2022
- 2021 – Umbrella Studio contemporary arts 2021 Members Exhibition
- 2020 – Umbrella Studio contemporary arts Compact Prints 2020
- 2017 – Pop Up North Queensland (PUNQ) Festival - Art Lab Cafe
- 2017 – Umbrella Studio contemporary arts Coal. Sugar. Reef. Magik
- 2016 – Umbrella Studio contemporary arts Compact Prints 2016
- 2015 – Umbrella Studio contemporary arts Audio Technica Young Artist Prize
- 2014 – Umbrella Studio contemporary arts Compact Prints 2014
- 2013 – Umbrella Studio contemporary arts Wish you Were Here
- 2012 – Umbrella Studio contemporary arts 2012 Members Exhibition
- 2012 – Umbrella Studio contemporary arts Compact Prints 2012
- 2012 – Perc Tucker Regional Gallery Animal Portraits
- 2012 – Umbrella Studio contemporary arts Audio-Technica Young Artist Prize
- 2011 – Umbrella Studio contemporary arts 2011 Members Exhibition
- 2011 – Perc Tucker Regional Gallery James Cook University Who Art We? graduates
- 2010 – Artspaced Inc Bravo Burlesque
- 2010 – James Cook University eMerge Space Best of Student Show for 2010
- 2010 – Perc Tucker Regional Gallery Live it Now. Post it Now.
- 2009 – Artspaced Inc To Die For – Tales of the Uncanny
Bibliography
- Mental Buffet SoCA JCU eMag, 27 November 2014
- Nature in Focus The Sun Community Newspaper, 15 November 2013
- Themes not so Black and White The Sun Community Newspaper, 11 November 2012
Texts
- Mental Buffet, catalogue for solo exhibition Mental Buffet, 2014.