news — Simone Darcy

November AIR at The Corridor Project located in Central West NSW, on wiradjuri country

Artist Simone Darcy Q&A feature on Gold Circle Website. Discussing cameraless photography. https://www.gold-circle.co.uk/showcase.html — Gold Circle Q&A
Abstraction in art serves as a powerful vehicle for expression. Liberated from the constraints of traditional representation, it evokes a visual reality that transcends the ordinary, embodying virtues such as simplicity, resilience, purity, and wonder.
This Showcase features the remarkable work of Simone Darcy, an artist born in Bedgerabong (NSW) on Wiradjuri land, who now resides in lutruwita/Tasmania. With the use of bold, expressive gestural marks, Darcy crafts abstract compositions that delve into themes of place, identity, and embodiment, deeply informed by her experiences as a woman, artist, and mother.
Gold Circle is excited to present these works, old and new, accompanied by an in-depth interview with the artist that reveals the stories behind her concepts, creative processes, and the presentation of her art.
Marina Syrmakezi
Founder & Curator

Chemigram workshop at the Corridor Project by Simone Darcy — Bookings

Chemigram workshop at Sawtooth Ari with artist Simone Darcy

art edit magaine, simone darcy artist, ones to watch, photography — Art Edit Magazine feature of my work ‘River, Mud & Silver Studded Boots’. Issue 40
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October 2024. Moonah Arts Centre Exhibition - The Other Side

Flesh 2024, Gelatin Silver Chemilumen 110 x 78cm

Lightwave Festival Chemigram workshop with artist Simone Darcy

Lightwave Festival photogram workshop with artist Simone Darcy

Exciting News! I’m heading to Bali in June for an artist residency and masterclass with Devy at Devfto Printmaking Institute in Ubud. This has been funded through a quick response grant from the Australian Government’s Regional Arts Fund, RANT Arts.

Top Images: WIP at Devfto, below image by Arley Mardo

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As part of my residency and exhibition I’ll be offering free darkroom sessions at the Schoolhouse Gallery, Rosny Art Farm.

This project has been partially funded by Rosny Art Farm, Clarence Council

Make and Do exhibition feature of Dark Brew, The Alchemist exhibition in Hobart by artist Simone Darcy — Make & Do March 2024

2024 Workshops - Rosny Arts Centre
Bookings through Humanitix

Simone Darcy, experimental photography processes, photogram, Australian contemporary artist, chemigram Residency Tasmania, Simone Darcy — Schoolhouse Gallery, Rosny Arts Centre, Tasmania 2024
Alongside this exhibition, I will be setting up a working darkroom with a developing installation within the Schoolhouse. This residency will run over 4 weeks at the Schoolhouse Gallery, Rosny Arts Centre from 8 March 2024
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November/December 2022 artist residency at All That We Are and AIRspace Oatlands, sponsored by Southern Midlands Council Tasmania. Toned hand-coloured photogram on silver gelatin cotton paper

Artist Residency - October 2022
Lighthouse Arts, Nobbys - Whibayganba Headland, Newcastle. With this project I was able to photograph the shell collection at the Port Stephens Shell Museum. Images shown are hand dyed silver gelatin prints

GOSFORD ART PRIZE FINALIST
Gosford Regional Gallery from August 19, 2022. Selected work - Leather Back Seat Shag, 2022. Archival Inkjet Print 150 x 120 cm (from original chemigram 50 x 40 cm)

Cement Fondu, Embody by Simone Darcy

EMBODY // CEMENT FONDU
Opening September 10, 2022 at Cement Fondu, Sydney. Showing alongside artists Min Wong and Shana Moulton
‘Created using cameraless techniques within the darkroom, Darcy’s imagery features glowing forms floating in darkness. Here, light and the human figure collaborate on photo-sensitive paper, constructing, unfolding, and recomposing the depiction of self. Composed of multiple panels of unique, imprinted, material portraits, each embodies a different real or imagined female persona across time - the Harlot, Warrior, Goddess, Wife, Mother, Widow, Mystic and Crone. Darcy defines embodiment in these works as “to give form to, incarnate, contain, and make concrete, in reference to a soul of a spirit”. Alongside these panels are a sequence of full-body photograms, showing luminescence feminine forms. In these, the artist’s body is employed as both a material and agent void of immediate classification, forging portraits that deny the viewer any sense of familiarity. Enveloping the space, these photographs act as a skin, embodying the stories, personas and scars that construct our ideas of the self’.
Anna May Kirk (Co-Director, Cement Fondu 2022)

MULLINS CONCEPTUAL PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE
Muswellbrook Arts Centre from 9 July, 2022. Selected Work - River, Mud & Silver Studded Boots 2022. Archival Inkjet Print 150 x 120 cm ( original chemigram 50 x 40 cm). This worked has been acquired into the Muswellbrook Regional Art Centre photography collection

Simone Darcy. Silver Gelatin Print 2022

Push Pull Series 2022, Shaddocks Architects Gallery, Newcastle. Unique Silver Gelatin Collage. 40.6 x 50.8 cm

Group Exhibition: Light Objects, Photography in the Expanded Field. Perth Centre for Photography 2018
Simone Darcy, Isobel Markus-Dunworth and Bernadette Smith
Light Objects – Photography in the Expanded Field is an exhibition of three photo-media artists stretching the medium of photography through explorations of light and objects in real space. Each artist challenges the idea of the conventional photograph allowing the photographic medium to expand beyond the flatness of the frame into three dimensions.

Reykjavik Museum of Photography Exhibition - Point North 2017. A collection of images based on the story of motherhood

I’m one of 260 photographers from 35 countries have been selected to be part of »A Process 2.0« during the opening weekend of Krakow Photomonth

Gaffa Photo Fest Group Show 2016. Finalists: Amanda Williams, Asami Wantanabe, Eloise Crossman, Harry Culy, Hayley Rose Hill, Heath McCalmont Parkinson, Hiroo Shinozuka, Kate Robertson, Kieran Butler, Matthew James, Michael Waite, Ngoc Nguyen, Nick de Lorenzo, Ruth Clifford and Simone Darcy

Maitland Regional Art Gallery exhibition: The Bus Stop Project