Sundari Carmody is an Adelaide based artist whose practice is primarily focused on the language of sculpture. She concerns herself with the question of how to engage with universal systems and aspects of being, which linger in the category of the unknown, in ‘the dark’. She attempts to find useful frameworks to give form to things that are invisible or which lie just beyond the limits of our perception. Relevant precedents to her methodology include research in the areas of dark matter, sleep and the study of nocturnal creatures. The scope of her investigations take into account the scientific, cultural, physiological and psychological aspects of ‘the dark’.
Carmody spent her formative years in Indonesia before moving to Perth and then Adelaide where in 2011 she graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) at the South Australian School of Art. Recent solo and group exhibitions include Churchie Emerging Art Prize 2018, QUT Art Museum; Steady Illiterate Movement, Seventh Gallery; Primal Site, BUS Projects; The Black Swan: Suite, FELTspace, March of the Black Swan, Constance ARI; CACSA Contemporary 2015, SASA Gallery. Beginning in May this year she will undertake a three month residency at Phasmid Studios in Berlin.
