Steve Carr is a leading New Zealand artist working predominantly across film, photography and sculpture. Within Carr’s practice, a preoccupation with controlled experiments, processes and outcomes is evident, manifesting in moments of subtle, humorous, and sometimes violent material transformation. Seemingly banal events – such as paint-filled balloons popped with a needle or a bubble meeting its demise on the tip of a cactus – are brought to life in real time, slow motion, loops and time lapse. Through the depiction of these somewhat incongruous actions, Carr resists the kinds of detached spectatorship induced by the current era of unprecedented visual stimuli, encouraging time for sustained observation and reflection.

Carr has exhibited extensively across New Zealand and Australia, including Christchurch Art Gallery (2021); Dunedin Public Art Gallery (2021); Tauranga Art Gallery, (2021); Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington (2020); City Gallery, Wellington (2019); Govett-Brewster/Len Lye Centre, New Plymouth (2017); Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne (2016); National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2019); Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland (2013); and Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2012). His works are held in the collections of many of these major institutions.

Steve Carr, Transpiration, 2014
Steve Carr, Transpiration, 2014
Steve Carr, Transpiration, 2014
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Carr Instal 7 LR
Steve Carr, A Manual for Small Archives, installation view, 2016
Steve Carr, The First Morning, 2020
Carr Instal 9 LR
Steve Carr, The Fallen Man, installation view, 2020
Steve Carr, Dead Time, 2012
Steve Carr, Winter Feeding #4, 2015
Steve Carr, Variations For Troubled Hands #6, 2015
Steve Carr, The Fallen Man, installation view, 2020
Steve-Carr, Dead Time No.7, 2012
Steve Carr, Winter Feeding #5, 2015
Steve Carr, The First Morning, detail view, 2020
Steve Carr, The First Morning, detail view, 2020
Steve Carr, Albedo, Flavedo, installation view, 2020
Steve Carr, Albedo, Flavedo No.8, 2020
Steve Carr, Albedo, Flavedo, installation view, 2020
Steve Carr, The First Morning, 2020
Steve Carr, Albedo, Flavedo No.1, 2020
Steve Carr, Albedo, Flavedo No.9, 2020
Steve Carr, Albedo, Flavedo, installation view, 2020
Steve Carr, The First Morning, detail view, 2020
Steve Carr, A Manual for Small Archives, installation view, 2016
Steve Carr, Albedo, Flavedo No.10,
Steve Carr, Albedo, Flavedo, installation view, 2020
Steve Carr, The First Morning, detail view, 2020
Steve Carr, Preening Peacock, 2009
Steve Carr, Queen Anne, 2009
Steve Carr, Screen Shots, 2011
Steve Carr, Screen Shots, 2011
Steve Carr, Screen Shots, 2011
Steve Carr, Turkey Shoot, 2009
Steve Carr, Screen Shots, 2011
Steve Carr, echo (installation view), 2018
Steve Carr, Dead Time, 2012
Steve Carr, echo (installation view), 2018
Steve Carr, The Fallen Man, installation view, 2020
Steve Carr, Winter Feeding #2, 2015
Steve Carr, Variations For Troubled Hands #4, 2015
Steve Carr, Albedo, Flavedo No.3, 2020
Steve Carr, The First Morning, 2020
Steve Carr, Screen Shots, 2011
Steve Carr, Dead Time, 2012
Steve Carr, Winter Feeding #3, 2015
Steve Carr, Variations For Troubled Hands #5, 2015
Steve Carr, Albedo, Flavedo No.4, 2020

Steve Carr

Smoke Bubbles 1–58

Steve Carr

Watermelon

Steve Carr

Variations for Troubled Hands