A Force Within Artwork

b.1981, London. Carr is an artist working with the architecture of nature, natural processes and phenomena such as magnetism, light, growth and ice structures. Raising questions about the nature of reality and our place in the cosmos, Carr invites the viewer on a journey of awakening and enlightenment. Captivated by our quest to know the unknown, see the unseen and exist in the spaces in between, Carr presents a fleeting comprehension of an unreachable place and state of being, present but not properly understood. At first glance, Carr’s aesthetic is elegant and sedate. On closer inspection, a subtle order and mechanism becomes apparent. Carr generates a slow drawing in of the audience, not to view an image, or a moment, but to observe change over time. A single, transforming, crucial moment of change highlights the threshold of order to chaos where both states may exist at once. The boundaries of liminal spaces stress the notions of duality, opposites, contradiction, interplay and connectivity. Through a manipulation of natural phenomena as media and by challenging our perception of our environment, Carr provokes change in the object and the viewer’s perspective in order to open a window into a world unknown. Carr’s practice involves collaboration with experts and world-leading researchers including engineers, biologists, geologists, cosmologists and theoretical physicists. The works produced are experimental in nature and include drawing, sculpture, kinetic works, photography, video and new media. Carr has exhibited work at the Fondation Cartier in Paris, in collaboration with Jean-Paul Gaultier, been commissioned work by seminal musicians Radiohead, and was shortlisted for the Arts@CERN COLLIDE International Award 2016 and longlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2017, 2019 and 2020. Carr is a member of The Royal Society of Sculptors. Carr frequently exhibits and works internationally including the Verket Museum, Sweden and project spaces in Iceland, spending six months at the artists’ collective HEIMA, in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland, as an artist in residence and mentor. Carr was awarded a Leverhulme funded residency in Durham 2017 entitled ‘Sculpting with Light’, investigating medieval and modern cosmology in collaboration with physicists, historians and cosmologists. She has presented papers at Oxford and Durham Universities and MIT, and has taken part in panel discussions at Sotheby’s and the Science Gallery Dublin.