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Yenda Carson
Objects for an Architect’s Desire (installation view), 1998
Glass, perspex, light and water
Collection of the artist
© Yenda Carson, 1998. Licenced by VISCOPY, Sydney 2000


Artwork | Statement | History



Yenda Carson
Objects for an Architect’s Desire (installation view), 1998
Glass, perspex, light and water
Collection of the artist
© Yenda Carson, 1998. Licenced by VISCOPY, Sydney 2000.


Yenda Carson
Reference Points 1-5 (detail), 1998
Glass and fluorescent light
Collection of the artist
© Yenda Carson, 1998. Licenced by VISCOPY, Sydney 2000


Yenda Carson
Jetty, 1999
Glass
350 x 350 x 40cm (irregular)
Collection of the artist
© Yenda Carson, 1999. Licenced by VISCOPY, Sydney 2000.


Yenda Carson
Channel (installation view), 1995
Glass, fluorescent light tube and silicone
Purchased 1997.
The 1997 Moet & Chandon Art Acquisition Fund
Queensland Art Gallery Collection
© Yenda Carson, 1995. Licenced by VISCOPY, Sydney 2000.


Yenda Carson
V , 1997-98
Glass, silicone
150 x 150 x 150cm
Public art commission, Neville Bonner Building, Brisbane
© Yenda Carson, 1997-98. Licenced by VISCOPY, Sydney 2000

Yenda Carson was born in 1967 and received a Bachelor of Visual Arts in Fine Art, with Honours, from the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University in 1992. Carson has received grants for a number of projects, including studio residencies in Korea and the Philippines. She has exhibited widely throughout Queensland and has been included in exhibitions in Melbourne, Seoul, Bangkok and Manila. She is currently a teacher at Kowanyama Aboriginal Community State School.

Selected bibliography

Boyd, Adam, Ground Up [exhibition catalogue], Artspace, Sydney, July 1999.

Chapman, Christopher, ‘Room service’, Broadsheet, vol. 25, no. 4, summer 1996–97, p. 23.

Clabburn, Anna, ‘Who is art for?’, in Moët & Chandon Touring Exhibition 1996 [exhibition catalogue], Moët & Chandon Australian Art Foundation, Box Hill, 1996.

Fitzsgibbons, A. M., ‘Channel’, Eyeline, no. 28, spring, 1995, p. 34.

Genocchio, Benjamin, Prima Donna [exhibition catalogue], Gallery 4A, Sydney, September 1998.

Keniger, Michael, ‘Civic dynamics’, Architecture Australia, vol. 88, no. 3, 1999. p. 66.

Kubler, Alison, ‘Yenda Carson’s objects for an architect’s desire’, in Objects for an Architect’s Desire [exhibition catalogue], Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane, 1998.

Mahoney, Bronwyn, [essay in] Channel [exhibition catalogue], Doggett Street Studios, Brisbane, 1995.

Morrison, Anne, ‘Walk on water’, in Across the Water [exhibition catalogue], Selenium, Sydney, 1995.

Palmer, Maudie, ‘Keeping the fizz in Queensland’, Artlines, April–May 1996, pp. 8–9.

Roe, Jae-ryung, ‘Currents: The voyage/passage from Brisbane to Seoul’, Currents [exhibition catalogue], Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, 1998.

Stoneley, Renai; Clark, C.; and Mahoney, B., [essay in] Wish You Were Here [exhibition catalogue], Smith + Stoneley, Brisbane, 1999.

Barker, Penelope, ‘Art and Architecture’, Belle Corporate Design, May 1999, p. 60.

Warfold, Chris, [essay in] Angels for the 21st Century [exhibition catalogue], Fortitude Gallery, Brisbane, 1996.

Solo exhibitions

1998

‘Objects for an Architect’s Desire’, Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane.

‘Currents’, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea.

1996

‘Illuminations’, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane.

‘Angels for the 21st Century’, Fortitude Gallery, Brisbane.

1995

‘Reach’, Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane.

‘Across the Water’, Selenium, Sydney.

‘Two Columns’, Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane.

‘Monopoly — Art for The Bridge’, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.

‘Channel’, Doggett Street Studios, Brisbane.

1994

‘Overland’, Magazine Space, Eagle Street Pier, Brisbane.

‘Paintings’, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane.

1991

‘Mine’, Space Plentitude, Brisbane.

1990

‘Drawings and Vessels’, Mount Nebo Artspace, Brisbane.

Group exhibitions

1999

‘Wish You Were Here’, Satellite Space, Smith + Stoneley, Brisbane.

1997

‘Soft’, Gallery 4A, Sydney.

‘Plastic (and other) Waste’, Chulalongkorn University Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand.

1996

‘Moët & Chandon Touring Exhibition 1996’, Moët & Chandon Australian Art Foundation, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.

‘Gold Coast City Conrad Jupiter’s Art Prize’, Queensland.

‘City of Hobart Art Prize’, Hobart.

‘Artists’ Books Exhibition’, Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane.

‘Ang de Latang Pinoy’, Hiraya Gallery, Manila, Philippines.

1995

‘Gasworks 5th Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition’, Gasworks, Melbourne.

‘Trance Plant’, New Farm Powerhouse, Brisbane.

‘Claiming Turf/Claiming Fortitude’, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.

‘Logan Art Award’, Logan City Art Gallery.

1992

‘Final Configuration’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane.

‘Artworkz Four’, Gallery 101, Collins Street, Melbourne.