Carolyn Craig

Born in Australia, lives and works in Sydney.

Carolyn’s gestural performances harness absurdity to critique the limiting frameworks of how we define “cultural normativity”.

Using photography and print as an active site of inscriptive performance of the body, Craig investigates established tropes and stereotypes with a particular focus on the idea of "habitus" as discussed by Pierre Bourdieu.

Portrait as my mother with modernist discourse, 2023, Etching on Fabriano, 120 x 70. © Image courtesy of Parker Contemporary and Carolyn Craig.

Portrait as my mother with modernist discourse, 2023, Etching on Fabriano, 120 x 70. © Image courtesy of Parker Contemporary and Carolyn Craig.

Conversations of lament part 1, 2024, Photogravure on BFK, 150 x 72. © Image courtesy of Parker Contemporary and Carolyn Craig.

Conversations of lament part 1, 2024, Photogravure on BFK, 150 x 72. © Image courtesy of Parker Contemporary and Carolyn Craig.

Conversations of lament part 2, 2024, Charcoal dusk screen print on Fabriano, 150 x 72.5. © Image courtesy of Parker Contemporary and Carolyn Craig.

Conversations of lament part 2, 2024, Charcoal dusk screen print on Fabriano, 150 x 72.5. © Image courtesy of Parker Contemporary and Carolyn Craig.