Charli Rose Gerry is an early career artist and writer based on Gadigal Land, Sydney. Her practice explores the intimate relationships between humans and fungi, and their entangled impact on multiple scales. Gerry uses mushroom foraging as a critical, sensory process that can attune to dynamic encounters between human and more-than-human bodies, and situated ecologies. The artist documents embodied experiences of place through hand-made fungus papers, photography, text and various other mediums and recycled materials. Currently, her research-based approach is focused on how kinships with fungi can imagine new modes of resistance to oppressive, extractive systems.
Education
Bachelor of Art Theory (First Class Hons) UNSW Art and Design (2023)
Group Shows
2023
Environmental Art and Design Prize, MAG&M, Manly, Sydney
IM-Permanent, RMIT x Ellis Jones Agency for Melbourne Design Week, Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne
Cut N Polish, Carriageworks, Eveleigh, Sydney
Awards/ Grants/Residencies
2024
Gunyah Artist in Residence, North Arm Cove, NSW
2023
Finalist, Environmental Art and Design Prize
Press
Gunyah Artist in Residence: Gathered Collective
Art Collector Magazine - Cut N Polish 2023
Freelance Writing
2022 - Melbourne Art Fair Returns - Art Collector Magazine
2022 - Archibald Prize Review - The Australian