FRANCIS CARMODY proposes speculative and playful narratives via research-based sculptural scenarios that call upon a wide range of expertise specific to each enquiry. Central to his work-to-date has been a tracing of networks and natural structures to arrive at propositions of origins and possible future destinations. His work Laschamp Cycles: Aurora takes its name from a geomagnetic event c. 42,000 years ago whereby the earth’s magnetic fields reversed, evidenced in the geological record. This period of relatively high radiation is thought to have accelerated the evolutionary course of species exemplified in the work by the abstracted morphology of a pea plant known for its responsiveness to magnetic fields and suggested in Carmody’s mobile forms.

Carmody received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, and completed a year-long honours course at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has been the recipient of a number of fellowships and awards. Between 2022–2024 he was a Gertrude Studio Artist at Gertrude Contemporary and presented a solo exhibition at Gertrude Glasshouse (2023). His work for Alpha Tauri was commissioned by the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and exhibited in The Charge That Binds (2024-2025), curated by Shelley McSpedden. He is currently working towards a number of major projects including for Primavera 2025: Young Australian Artists at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, curated by Tim Riley Walsh.