Carl Warner Darkness Visible

25 Feb – 21 March 2015

Darkness Visible There is an apocryphal story of the painter J.M.W. Turner having himself lashed to a mast during a storm and deciding that if he survived the experience he was bound to record it. I say apocryphal for it appears that Turner was as good a showman as he was a painter. It is a story that sticks, an unctuous and oily legacy despite Turner’s light hand with paint, to any attempting to work with landscape, even photographers. There is a demand that nature must be experienced so that it can be translated, it must be seen as wild, irrepressible and above all sublime. I went on my own journey of a few hours through turbid weather and heaving seas to make this series of work. Instead of a masted ship I was on a tourist ferry in Milford sound, one of the wettest places on earth. There were few on the boat but we all had our lenses in cameras or phones to record the experience. The camera, like Turner’s story, allows us to appear centrally within nature as both maker and viewer. My story doesn’t have the derring do of Turner’s, it is a modern version where nature is visited rather than visited upon. We seem to believe there is less nature now and place ourselves apart, outside of the natural course of things. An amazing conceit that I have never really understood. My interest in photography is not in the “what has been’ of the image but rather the ‘what could be’. When we look at a photograph we never really see what we are looking at (the print, the screen) but rather what we think was before the lens. Time is upset as the past happens in a contemporary field and a myriad of desires awaken. In this series I hope you ’sense’ the elemental of water on water on water; rain, waterfall and sea. Fear the great danger of water, the force of it and breath the vapour it becomes. May it be a metaphor for whatever you desire, a metonymical aspect of the storm, a mnemonic for your own travels. And I hope you are dry when you do it, because I was soaked. Carl Warner January 2015

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Carl Warner Bio Carl Warner (b. 1965) has been exhibiting since 1989. His work is included in major Australian Collections such as QGOMA, University of Queensland Art Museum, Artbank, National Parliament, R.A.C.V, Monash University and QUT. Solo exhibitions have included Sense (CCP Melbourne), A Concrete Pasture (UQAM), Under (Christine Abrahams Gallery), The Surface (Esa Jaske Gallery) and The Remembered Present (Jan Manton Art). As well Warner has participated in important group exhibitions including The Art of Inclusion (QAG), Minimal (ACP), Fortitude (QAG), Retrospective (Canberra Contemporary Artspace), Sleight (QCP), The Lake (Tapei) and Silver (MoB). In 2006 the University of Queensland Art Museum launched Sensing the Surface a survey exhibition and publication of Warner’s photographic output between the years 1995 and 2005. Warner’s work also featured heavily in Anne Marsh’s comprehensive publication “Contemporary Australian Photogrpahy and Photographers”. In 2013 he participated in the Silver exhibition at the Museum of Brisbane and is currently completing a major commission for the Spicers Hotel group. CV Solo Exhibitions 2011 The remembered present Jan Manton Art Brisbane 2010 oblivion Jan Manton Art Brisbane

2009 oblivious Kristian Pithe Melbourne 2007 Disturbance Jan Manton Art Brisbane

2007 Twenty : Twenty Museum of Brisbane Brisbane 2006 Sensing the surface University Art Museum Brisbane 2006 nothingtoseehear Christine Abrahams Gallery Melbourne 2006 nothingtoseehear Jan Manton Art Brisbane 2005 The Surface Esa Jäske Gallery Sydney 2004 The Surface (projection) University Art Museum Brisbane Surface Jan Manton Art Gallery Brisbane Nature is Esa Jäske Gallery Sydney 2003 under Christine Abrahams Gallery Melbourne 2002 they all come back Soap Box Gallery Brisbane under (projection) IMA Brisbane Colour Field Soap Box Gallery Brisbane 2001 Carl Warner Christine Abrahams Gallery Melbourne 1999 vessel Milburn Gallery Brisbane a concrete pasture Cairns Regional Gallery Cairns

1998 a concrete pasture University Art Museum Brisbane 1997 detritus Milburn Gallery Brisbane 1995 sense CCP Melbourne Doggett St Studios Brisbane Cairns Regional Gallery Cairns matter without meaning Michael Burke Gallery Brisbane garden The Vine Brisbane 1992 overwhatwecreatewehavenocontrol IRG Ipswich 1991 industrial series III &IV Photographers Gallery Brisbane 1990 gardening and chaos Photographers Gallery Brisbane 1989 Tosca Photographers Gallery Brisbane 1988 photographs Photographers Gallery Brisbane

Group Exhibitions 2011 Waiting for Asylum UQ Art Museum Brisbane 2009 150 Years : Photography in Queensland Art Gallery Brisban Queensland from the Collection 2005 Idiosyncrasy Q.C.P Brisbane The Lake Taipei Artist Village Taipei

on the unseen Esa Jaske Gallery Sydney 2004 Sleight Redlands Art Gallery Cleveland Surface QCP Brisbane Seeing the Collection The Mayne Centre Brisbane

2003 Inaugural Exhibition Esa Jäske Gallery Sydney

Botanica Mackay Artspace Macka falling in love Soap Box Gallery Brisbane 2000 Fortitude Queensland Art Gallery Brisbane

minimal A.C.P Sydney Flash IMA Brisbane 1999 Retro Version C.C.A.S Canberra

Newcastle University Art Museum Sydney The Art of Inclusion Queensland Art Gallery Brisbane Touring Exhibitions 1998 Baroque Institute Modern Art Brisbane Transvisual RGAQ Touring Exhibition 1997 Run Milburn Gallery Brisbane 1996 The Power to Move Queensland Art Gallery Brisbane Kunstwöllen Fortitude Gallery Brisbane 1993 Outside looking in Queensland Art Gallery Brisbane Bibliography Marsh, A, ‘Contemporary Australian Photography and Photographers’ Macmillan, Melbourne, 2008 McLean, S, “Sensing the Surface”, The Courier Mail, June 17 – 18 2006, p. 11 Martin-Chew, L, “Industrial-strength abstract photography”, The Australian, June 2006 Butler S, Williamson C, Grant K, Kubler A, Ehmann F, “Sensing the surface”, UAM publication, 2006 The Lake “Towards a cross-cultural dialogue”, Treasure Hill tea and photo, Taiwan. Hawker R, Idiosyncrasy (exhibition catalogue), QCP Brisbane 2005 Best S, Photofile 63, A.C.P Sydney 2001 Morrell T, Colour Field (exhibition catalogue), 2002 Murray Cree. L, “New Work by Young Australians”, Art & Australia Vol38/4 Butler S, Australian Art Collector 16 “Undiscovered” Pedersen C, Eyeline, Qld Artworkers Alliance, 2000

Walsh J, Fortitude (exhibition catalogue), Qld Art Gallery, Brisbane, 2000 Grant K, a concrete pasture (exhibition catalogue), University Art Museum, 1998 Matthews K, Eyeline no 36, Qld Artworkers Alliance, 1998 Szulakowska U, Eyeline no 9, Qld Artworkers Alliance, 1990 Williamson C, Photofile, A.C.P. Sydney, 1993 Eyre A J, not only Black&White no 9, Sydney, 1994 Powell S, Eyeline no 29, Qld Artworkers Alliance, 1996 Williamson C, sense (exhibition catalogue), Melbourne, 1995 Grant K Kirker A. & Williamson C, The Power to Move (exhibition catalogue), Qld Art Gallery, Brisbane 1996

Grants 2004 Major grant Arts Queensland

2002 New work Australia Council 1994 Development grant Arts Queensland

1994 Project grant Arts Queensland Commissions/prizes 2008 Infinity Forest Evolutions Building, cnr Tank Street Brisbane 2007 Glendalough Historic Houses, Ipswich Regional Gallery 2002 Design Development Capalaba Streetscape 2002 Concept Development Capalaba Streetscape 2002 Concept Development 33 Charlotte Street Brisbane 2001 Concept Development (core wall) 33 Charlotte Street Brisbane 2000 Toowoomba Regional Gallery Acquisitive Prize 2000 G.P South Foyer University of Queensland 1999 Duhig Library Foyer University of Queensland 1998 Hong Kong Bank Building Foyer Brisbane 1992 overwhatwecreatewehavenocontrol Ipswich Regional Gallery Collections Artbank Brisbane City Gallery Cairns Regional Gallery Duhig Library Daryl Hewson Collection Ipswich Regional Gallery Knights Frank Collection KPMG Collection Queensland Art Gallery Regional Galleries Association of Queensland Toowoomba Regional gallery University of Queensland Art Museum Brisbane Boys Grammar Ian Potter Art Gallery – University Melbourne Mackay Artspace Rockhampton Regional Gallery VIsy Corporation Art Collection Private and Corporate collections, Australia

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