Zara Carpenter: archive

This collection is uncatalogued. The following is an interim description which may be altered when detailed cataloguing takes place in future.

Records documenting Zara's work as an artist, including her artistic processes and exhibitions. Includes material relating to exhibitions and events includes flyers, promotional material, press releases, installation and other exhibition photographs, and related exhibition records. Includes videos and photographs of artistic processes and experiments, social media and website screenshots and grant related records. Also includes Effigy exhibition videos (for exhibition with "Effigy" artwork).

This archival material was acquired alongside a selection of artworks by Zara Carpenter, including:

Set of three handmade experiment sketch books (2018-2019): Chapter One: BLEACH (8 pages/prints + cover, A5 size), Chapter Two: RAIN (4 pages/prints, A5 size), Chapter Three: ANTI-BACTERIAL WIPES (5 pages/prints, A5 size).

Effigy (Body) (2018-2019) 1320mm x 880mm original artwork on paper.

Effigy (Face) (2019) 1240mm x 870mm original artwork on paper.

15 Polaroid Prints (2019) 590x590mm.

2010s-2020s

664 digital files 1 file

Zara Carpenter is a self-taught multi-disciplinary artist; using analogue photography, print making, sculptural assemblages and performance.

Her current work explores the history of 'Hysteria' and how women's physical and sexual health has been demonised. Previous bodies of work have examined themes of trauma, living with chronic illness, dependency on pain medication and a lifelong love of the ephemeral and memento mori.

Zara has exhibited nationally and internationally and is the co-founder of the arts project SICK! Living With Invisible Illness, she has curated and co-curated several group shows.

Zara is also an arts workshop facilitator delivering workshops for Wellcome Collection, Normal! festival of the Brain, FreeSpace Project and others.

Information correct as of 2022. For more information, see Zara Carpenter's website: https://www.zaracarpenter.com/

EXHIBITIONS

2020 Polaroid Week 2020 Top 20 online exhibition Analog Forever

2020 Echoes, Rochester Art Gallery (video tour)

2019 Loss & Lucidity No: 2, Lisbon, Portugal

2019 The Shed, The Tack Room, Rochester

2019 Contemporary Art + Ritual, Crypt Gallery, London

2019 A Constant Companion, Free Space Project, London

2019 Matt Bray Collabs, Sun Pier House, Chatham

2019 The Two Of Us, Rebel Reels Studio, London

2018 (In) Visible, Espacio Gallery, London

2018 Spegla Photography Festival, Sweden

2018 Loss & Lucidity, Santa Ana, USA

2018 Experiments, Sun Pier House, Chatham

2018 Art On A Postcard, Photo London, Somerset House

2018 SICK! at Bounce Vintage, Folkestone

2018 Collage Garden, New York USA

2017 SICK! (co-curator), Sun Pier House Chatham

2014 Disquiet Beauty (co-curator), Rochester Art Gallery

2012 Fragments, The Horsebridge Whitstable

2011 86.062 The Painkiller Prints (curator), The Deaf Cat Rochester

For further artworks, zines and books by Zara Carpenter, check the online catalogue: https://wellcomecollection.org/works?query=zara+carpenter

Copyright held by Zara Carpenter, with an All Rights Reserved license issued to Wellcome Collection.

This collection is currently uncatalogued and cannot be ordered online. Requests to view uncatalogued material are considered on a case by case basis. Please contact collections@wellcomecollection.org for more details.