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