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Shown last week in Beyond Boundaries at: H Gallery, Insadong Jongno-gu Seoul Korea
Heading to : Chilsung Boatyard Gallery in Sokcho City Gangwon-do, South Korea
Image 1: Carolyn Craig Parole/Parobola Digital print on Aluminium 106 x 61.5 cm 2026
Image 2: Carolyn Craig Have you forgotten me screen print on Aluminium 110 x 62 cm 2026
Thanks to the wonderful company and hard work of @roylee_photography
Showing work with @adamnorton64 @daan_den_houter @kimbeomsoo2022 @bellinpond @bongsookoh @aniqueweve plus a few not on Insta !!
Huge fun
18 Sep 2026
It’s the final day for Carolyn Craig: Becoming Penguin (Act II). Open until 3pm or you can continue to view available works and the exhibition catalogue on the gallery website.
For artwork purchases contact the gallery.
17 Jul 2026
Final week to experience Carolyn Craig’s Becoming Penguin (Act II) at PARKER Contemporary.
Through performance, documentation and classification, Craig transforms the penguin from a playful figure into something more uneasy: a body made visible, sorted and read through systems of judgement.
The exhibition uses humour and absurdity to consider how identities are shaped by the structures around us, and what it means to seek safety in a world that continues to decide who belongs inside the huddle.
“I want to huddle against the cruelty of the world. I want to become penguin in all its absurdist overtones.” Carolyn Craig
Visit the gallery this week to spend time with this compelling body of work before it closes on Saturday July 18.
Artworks available to acquire through the gallery.
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Installation images courtesy PARKER Contemporary
10 Jul 2026
Tonight at PARKER Contemporary | Carolyn Craig: Becoming Penguin (Act II).
Join us from 6–8pm for the opening night and to meet Carolyn in the gallery, ahead of her artist talk tomorrow at 2pm.
PARKER Contemporary
Fish Lane Arts Precinct
38 Hope Street, South Brisbane
More details via the link in bio. Exhibition catalogue now available
Photo credit: Carolyn Craig: Becoming Penguin (Act II) (installation view). Courtesy PARKER Contemporary.
02 Jul 2026
EXHIBITION ANNOUNCEMENT
Carolyn Craig: Becoming Penguin (Act II)
July 3 - July 18
In this new body of work, Craig uses the figure of the penguin to examine how judgement is carried through the body. The penguin is not simply a character or disguise, but a constructed identity through which the artist tests the pressures of adaptation and belonging. As Craig reflects, “I want to huddle against the cruelty of the world. I want to become penguin in all its absurdist overtones.”
The exhibition begins in performance, with Craig inhabiting this figure before the action is documented, stilled and subjected to classification. Through this process, the playful absurdity of the penguin becomes increasingly uneasy. It is a body made visible, sorted and read through a system that appears neutral but has already set the terms.
Informed by Michelle Alexander’s writing on the contemporary caste system, Becoming Penguin (Act II) considers how structural exclusion can be made to appear voluntary. Craig uses humour and transformation to unsettle ideas of innocence and blame, asking how identities of criminality or deviance are produced rather than simply found.
Between tenderness and absurdity, Becoming Penguin (Act II) asks what it means to seek protection from a world that continues to decide who is seen, who is suspected and who is left outside the huddle.
Carolyn Craig is a Sydney based artist who has exhibited her work nationally and internationally including at the Krakow Centre for Print and Artspace GOTGAN, Seoul, Korea. She completed her PhD at @qcadgriffith Griffith University in 2017 and is the head of printmaking at the National Art School @nas_au
Opening Night
Friday July 3
6pm - 8pm
Artist Talk
Saturday July 4
2pm - 3pm
PARKER Contemporary
38 Hope Street, South Brisbane
Fish Lane Arts Precinct @explorefishlane
Preview catalogue available on request
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1. Carolyn Craig, Act 5: geometry of sight, 2026, photo etching from a performance by the artist, 39 x 53cm. Image courtesy the artist
3. Carolyn Craig, Act 6: Accept your Fate (beyond the penguin state), photo etching from a performance by the artist, 39 x 53cm. Image courtesy the artist
14 Jun 2026
Owen Leong
“Heavy Leather”
Opens Saturday June 6 | 4pm
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SYRUP
20 Farr street Marrickville
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Image | Sanctuary
Bronze, hand blown glass and steel
46 x 39 x 27cm
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Incredible works
Also opening EO Gill ”sediment “
Pics to follow for EO
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@owen_leong
@syrup.contemporary
04 Jun 2026
Mike Parr is the focus of CATALYST (VAULT 54), highlighting his recent performance and exhibition as part of Biennale of Sydney. In Parr’s practice, trauma (potential and actual) continues as both theme and method. He told Fiona Kelly McGregor, ‘I sort of traumatise myself through my own impulses and urges, and it’s that traumatic form I reconceive as political. It enables me to think.’
Images:
Portrait of Mike Parr during Ships In The Night performance, SYRUP Contemporary, Gadigal Country/Sydney, 22 March 2026. Photo: Carolyn Craig.
Installation photo: MIKE PARR, Ships in the Night,
12 March 2026, SYRUP Contemporary. Courtesy of SYRUP Contemporary, Gadigal Country/Sydney.
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13 May 2026
great show @j.starr.io @syrup.contemporary
11 Apr 2026
Our newest Womxn in Expanded Print interview is now live and we’re in conversation with Sydney-based artist and educator, Carolyn Craig. @carolyncraig_cc
Carolyn is the Head of Printmaking at the National Art School and an interdisciplinary artist whose work examines how power is manifested through biological relations and physical architectures. Our interview is wide ranging and Craig reflects on her journey from apprentice offset printer to leading educator, the embodied safety she found in the print room, and how printmaking’s historical entanglement with power makes it the perfect medium for subversive actions.
Images courtesy of the artist:
(1) Installation image “Sites of Infection”, presented at @firstdraft_ 2025
(3) “Temporal Persistence 2: affective detritus” (still image of video work), 2025
(5) “Proximal Noise: Principles and actions against Anoxia”, etchings from performance, 2021
(6) “Against Precarity”, presented at @tiles.lewisham 2022
Link to read the full interview through our Linktr.ee
19 Feb 2026
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05 Feb 2026
LAST DAYS
Carolyn Craig’s practice reflects on the civic death of imprisonment and the looping nature of industrialised carceral time.
In this work titled Baroque Skins, agar and bacteria sit within a large modernist Petri-shaped container, forming a skin-like surface that appears held within a confined structure. Nearby, an audio track plays what the artist describes as the “sonic residue” of a prison cell, featuring Craig’s voice reading from the crimes act of 1900.
Visit us this weekend to experience the full installation. 𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 - 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙭𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙡 𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 is on until 11 January.
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IMAGES > A large, square wooden box with a flat, translucent surface on top sits on a grey floor. Inside the box, two audio speakers are visible. The translucent surface on the top appears to have some sediment or possibly biological growth that adds to its cloudy appearance. On the right side, outside the box, an electrical cord extends to a power strip. > A well-lit art gallery with white walls, wooden boxes on the floor, and two photographic artworks on the walls. > A close-up view of a corner of a transparent, rectangular display case on a light wooden base. The surface is covered with a clear material, possibly acrylic or glass, exhibiting a matte texture with subtle smudges and varying spots.
08 Jan 2026
In 𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 - 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙭𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙡 𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨, Carolyn Craig applies symbiotic substances (algae/agar) as stand-ins for the human body to examine the sensory and temporal effects of incarceration and how its traces linger.
Works such as ’unfixed extraction and denial (algae love)‘ uses an algae based photographic emulsion that continues to shift over time, gradually fading under UV grow lights. Positioned on the opposite wall, ’fixed - agent and index‘ captures a moment of the same image placed within resin, preserving what would otherwise disappear. Together, these works form a quiet dialogue about presence, confinement and the fragile ways bodies and memories are held.
If you’re in St Kilda this weekend, drop by Linden Projects Space to experience these works in person. On view until 11 January 2026.
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ID > Three wooden pedestals stand in the centre of a white-walled gallery, each holding a small projector with black wires extending to the floor. Mounted on the wall behind each pedestal is a translucent container filled with liquid and an illuminated image visible through it. On the side walls are two small photographic works with muted green tones. > An olive-green print of a faintly outlined arm and hand on a white wall.
11 Dec 2025
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