This collection brings together curatorial essays and reflections on Anthony Carey’s painting practice. Written by independent curators, arts educators and the artist, the texts explore material process, memory, identity, belonging, and the relationship between presence and absence.
Belonging
By Patricia Moriarty
Independent Art Curator and Educator
Patricia Moriarty reflects on Anthony Carey’s Belonging series, considering grief, memory and the shared human need to find one’s place. She explores how material process and Jungian archetypes connect personal experience with broader questions of identity and belonging.
Material, Memory and Belonging
By Dr Katrina Whitehead
Lecturer and Visual Arts Educator
Dr Katrina Whitehead considers Anthony Carey’s evolving practice through identity, ancestry, material process and the search for belonging. Her curatorial reflection examines how personal experience, research and artistic development come together within the work.
Process Reflection
By Anthony Carey
Artist
Anthony Carey reflects on a painting process shaped by layering, excavation and material resistance. He considers how partial figures emerge through making and how surfaces can hold traces of memory, change, absence and what remains.