Carolyn Craig

Carolyn Craig is an interdisciplinary artist examining how power is articulated within and through the body and language. Her research considers how representational practices are implicit within the construction of class, sexed and racial tropes. Her studio practice archives remnants from performative ‘acts’ or site-specific investigations. This material is then re-contextualised through print processes to destabilize its normative representational value as social collateral and to articulate affect. Her material focus is within copy-based protocols. She is a current director at Frontyard Projects, Sydney and Schmick Projects in Haymarket.

Craig teaches at the National Art School in Sydney where she is Head of Printmaking, and has been a finalist in the Churchie, Freemantle, Burnie, Bangkok Drawing and Print Triennial, as well as many others.

4 | Carolyn Craig, Holding the Line Part #1: Structural defense, 2023, AV print on acrylic and plywood, 106 x 57.5 cm. $1100.

5 | Carolyn Craig, Holding the Line Part #2: Pillar of black salt, 2023, AV print on acrylic and plywood, 106 x 57.5 cm. $1100.

Hito Steryerl describes contemporary ways of seeing and being as existing in an “ intermittent state of free fall for subjects and objects alike” where our perspectival certainty has dissolved. My series of works Holding the Line engage with this specularity of self and the need to find borders and edges – whilst also performing a bodily need to erase sites of past enclosure where affect has left its distaste.