Bless You, Bless Me, Bless the Mountain: Shan Turner-Carroll
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COMA is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Australian artist Shan Turner-Carroll (b.1987), titled Bless You, Bless Me, Bless the Mountain, on view from 6 March - 4 April, 2026 at 37 Chapel Street, Marrickville, Sydney, NSW, 2204.
Featuring a suite of new photographic works presented alongside large-scale sculptural interventions, the exhibition approaches art making as an act and process of devotion: a devotion to oneself, those you love, and your craft.
Created on his childhood property, Turner-Carroll has once again mined his personal archive to create theatrical environments produced from materials found nearby. Abandoned hay barrels have been transformed into a large, plaster-covered freestanding wall; basketballs are placed atop branches like Christmas ornaments; and discarded fabrics have been cast into plates that resemble bionic armour.
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The works draw on the visual language of traditional sculpture as an entry point, but they are informed by alternative methodologies and ongoing interests in the spiritual and psychological. They are not fixed objects but vessels, sites where intention, doubt, and care are held simultaneously. To materialise a prayer is to bring something fragile and immaterial into the relative world, where it can be witnessed, questioned, and shared.
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"I am not interested in prayer as a solution, but as a human behaviour, a reflex toward hope when confronted with despair. What does it mean to pray in the current environmental, humanitarian and political situations? What does it mean to ask for divine intervention while knowing that change requires action across many levels? Perhaps prayer does not change the world directly, but it may change how we hold it, how we grieve, how we care, how we continue."
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