Carl Warner : Darkness Visible

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

Darkness Visible # 1 lambda print on archival paper 120 x 90cm $3,200 ed 1/5 unframed prices

Darkness Visible # 2 lambda print on archival paper 120 x 90cm $3,200 ed 1/5 unframed prices

Darkness Visible # 3 lambda print on archival paper 120 x 90cm $3,200 ed 1/5 unframed prices

Darkness Visible # 4 lambda print on archival paper 120 x 90cm $3,200 ed 1/5 unframed prices

Darkness Visible # 5 lambda print on archival paper 120 x 90cm $3,200 ed 1/5 unframed prices

Darkness Visible # 6 lambda print on archival paper 45 x 60 cm $1,500 ed 1/5 unframed prices

Darkness Visible # 7 lambda print on archival paper 60 x 45 cm $1,500 ed 1/5 unframed prices

Darkness Visible # 8 lambda print on archival paper 45 x 60 cm $1,500 ed 1/5 unframed prices

Darkness Visible # 9 lambda print on archival paper 45 x 60 cm $1,500 ed 1/5 unframed prices

Cabin #3 lambda print on archival paper 19 x 25 cm $600 ed 1/5 unframed prices

Cabin #4 lambda print on archival paper 19 x 25 cm $600 ed 1/5 unframed prices

Cabin #5 lambda print on archival paper 19 x 25 cm $600 ed 1/5 unframed prices

Cabin #6 lambda print on archival paper 19 x 25 cm $600 ed 1/5 unframed prices

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 2010 oblivion 2009 oblivious 2007 Disturbance 2007 Twenty : Twenty 2006 Sensing the surface 2006 nothingtoseehear 2006 nothingtoseehear 2005 The Surface 2004 The Surface (projection) Surface Nature is 2003 under 2002 they all come back under (projection) Colour Field 2001 Carl Warner 1999 vessel Milburn Gallery a concrete pasture 1998 a concrete pasture 1997 detritus Milburn Gallery 1995 sense CCP

1992 1991 1990 1989 1988

Brisbane Brisbane Melbourne Brisbane Brisbane Brisbane Melbourne Brisbane Sydney Brisbane Brisbane Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Brisbane Brisbane Melbourne

matter without meaning garden The Vine

Jan Manton Art Jan Manton Art Kristian Pithe Jan Manton Art Museum of Brisbane University Art Museum Christine Abrahams Gallery Jan Manton Art Esa Jäske Gallery University Art Museum Jan Manton Art Gallery Esa Jäske Gallery Christine Abrahams Gallery Soap Box Gallery IMA Soap Box Gallery Christine Abrahams Gallery Brisbane Cairns Regional Gallery University Art Museum Brisbane Melbourne Doggett St Studios Cairns Regional Gallery Michael Burke Gallery Brisbane

overwhatwecreatewehavenocontrol industrial series III &IV gardening and chaos Tosca Photographers Gallery photographs

IRG Photographers Gallery Photographers Gallery Brisbane Photographers Gallery

Ipswich Brisbane Brisbane

UQ Art Museum Queensland Art Gallery

Brisbane Brisban

Q.C.P Taipei

Brisbane

Esa Jaske Gallery Cleveland Brisbane The Mayne Centre

Sydney

Group Exhibitions 2011 Waiting for Asylum 2009 150 Years : Photography in Queensland from the Collection 2005 Idiosyncrasy The Lake Taipei Artist Village 2004

on the unseen Sleight Redlands Art Gallery Surface QCP Seeing the Collection

Cairns Brisbane Brisbane Cairns Brisbane

Brisbane

Brisbane

2003 2000 1999

Inaugural Exhibition Botanica Mackay Artspace falling in love Fortitude Queensland Art Gallery minimal A.C.P Flash Retro Version Newcastle University Art Museum The Art of Inclusion

Touring Exhibitions 1998 1997 1996 1993

Baroque Transvisual Run The Power to Move Kunstwöllen Outside looking in

Esa Jäske Gallery Macka Soap Box Gallery Brisbane Sydney IMA C.C.A.S Sydney Queensland Art Gallery

Sydney

Institute Modern Art RGAQ Touring Exhibition Milburn Gallery Queensland Art Gallery Fortitude Gallery Queensland Art Gallery

Brisbane

Brisbane Brisbane Canberra Brisbane

Brisbane Brisbane Brisbane Brisbane

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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

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Commissions/prizes 2008 2007 2002 2002 2002 2001 2000 2000 1999 1998 1992 Collections

Major grant 2002 1994 Project grant

Arts Queensland New work Development grant Arts Queensland

Infinity Forest Glendalough Design Development Concept Development Concept Development Concept Development (core wall) Toowoomba Regional Gallery G.P South Foyer Duhig Library Foyer Hong Kong Bank Building Foyer overwhatwecreatewehavenocontrol

Evolutions Building, cnr Tank Street Brisbane Historic Houses, Ipswich Regional Gallery Capalaba Streetscape Capalaba Streetscape 33 Charlotte Street Brisbane 33 Charlotte Street Brisbane Acquisitive Prize University of Queensland University of Queensland Brisbane Ipswich Regional Gallery

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

Australia Council Arts Queensland

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