Camryn Carnell

Taking inspiration from optical and cosmological phenomena, my work playfully ponders how one is shaped by space, and in turn, how space is shaped by bodies. Combinations of artificial, fluorescent colours with organic shapes and linework attempt to claim psychological space, through an expansive and curious methodology. The studio is a place where my inner child is granted permission to embrace her ADHD traits without shame or judgement. This is an ongoing practice, and its evolution is mirrored in the growth of my artistic practice. A subversion of normative behaviour and ways of being, the work asserts itself as an uncanny reflection of several forms of traditional art media, embodying my own sense of otherness in its material qualities, existing in an in-between state. Familiar conditions are source materials for the work, reimagined in abstraction, to propose an internal landscape which I occupy. Meanings form from my research and everyday encounters, rearranged, and recombined with whimsy and zeal. 

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