Carmel McCarney Artist

I am a Sydney-based abstract artist working primarily in painting, with an ongoing practice in drawing and printmaking. Over my years of practice, and currently completing my final year of a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the National Art School, my work has developed toward cosmic, ethereal, organic and atmospheric forms - translucent veils that hover in layers like shifting light. I want the viewer to step into the work the way one might stare into a vortex, and simply be invited to contemplate and reflect.

My practice sits within process-driven abstraction, chance, and colour field painting, with roots in the concerns of Abstract Expressionism. I'm drawn to abstraction because it lets feeling move through materiality, process and colour in a way that communicates tactilely rather than verbally.