SIGNALS FROM 4 AUG – 8 OCTOBER 2023.

OPENING NIGHT FRIDAY 4 AUGUST 5:30pm.

IN CONVERSATION 12 AUGUST.

Shan Turner-Carroll and Ryota Sato’s collaborative practice centres on the poetic intersection of digital craftsmanship with expanded forms of traditional practices, such as textiles, painting, agriculture and performance. In Signals From, the artists use modes of communication such as telepathy, digital devices and natural forces, and welcome community participation by learning and honing local crafts and traditions to understand their site and environments.

Signals From presents a body of work from the artists’ ongoing creative partnership. The first, in 2019, saw Shan participate in a residency in Ryota’s home in Japan, responding to the site on the island of Matsushima. This current stage of their collaboration celebrates a shared approach to experimental art practices which surpass the studio and gallery space, understanding gestures and tasks, such as farming, or cleaning the island, as expressions of artistic practice.

This exhibition will feature site-specific and newly developed collaborative works responding to the site, environments, mood and history of The Lock-Up. These new works reflect on interactions between buildings and workers, rumours and documents, ghosts and living beings.

About Shan Turner-Carroll
Shan Turner-Carroll (b. 1987) is an Australian artist of Burmese descent. Deeply fascinated with unearthing tacit knowledge, his practice integrates mediums including photography, sculpture, performance and film. The subjects his works have related to include both human and non-human nature, alternative forms of social exchange and interactions between art, artist and viewer. Shan holds a MFA from the University of Newcastle and has exhibited throughout Australia, New York, New Zealand, Iceland, Hong Kong and Myanmar.

About Ryota Sato
Ryota Sato (b. 1980) is an artist currently based in Okayama, Japan. His practice spans digital media, video installation, painting, photography, and sculpture. His work explores the relationship between human bodies, landscapes, information media, slippage of nature-culture and the circulation of imagery particularly in relation to image capturing devices. He graduated from Parsons School of Design, MFA Fine Arts department and currently works at 2-16 Gallery in Okayama, Japan.