about

Carly Scoufos is an Australian visual artist working across a range of mediums. Her current studio practice predominately focuses on sculpture and installation however her earliest qualifications were in drawing and painting. She studied at the Santa Rosa Junior College in California, before completing a Bachelor of Fine Art with First Class Honours from the Queensland College of Art - Griffith University.

After graduating Carly was awarded the Queensland Art Gallery’s 2008 Melville Haysom Memorial Art Scholarship and exhibited in QAG’s Watermall Café as part of the Starter Space program. In 2009, following the receipt of the Siganto Travel Scholarship, Carly undertook a studio residency at Youkobo Art Space in Tokyo where she presented her first solo exhibition, Seam. Since then she has exhibited regularly, been awarded numerous grants and awards and completed a large number of public commissions in both Australia and overseas. Her recent commissions include a large-scale sculptural installation for the foyer of 1 William Street, Brisbane - the new home of the Queensland Government and a 30 m suspended sculpture at the Domestic Terminal of Perth Airport. She most recently worked with UAP Shanghai to deliver two suspended sculptures for the Shenzhen World Exhibition and Convention Centre.

This year will see Carly continue to build her practice and body of work with several commissions in Melbourne and group exhibitions of smaller works in Brisbane and throughout Queensland.

Artist statement

"Working across both sculpture and installation, my art practice explores abstract and fleeting moments within natural phenomena. While the material most common to my practice is hand-woven industrial wire, I also regularly use pins and yarn to make large-scale, site specific installations, hand-sewn and wrapped paper installations and more recently, carved and constructed timber facades of rural buildings.  These processes of weaving, sewing and woodworking parallel traditional textile techniques. Particularly in regards to the woven wire technique I have refined over the past eight years, which references traditions such as needlework, lace making and knitting, in which single strands of fibre are interwoven to create structure and define space. Within my work however the 'fibre' or 'thread' used is either fencing or welding wire with properties that are rigid, sharp and unforgiving, therefore juxtaposing the femininity of domestic techniques and the ‘handmade’ to the use of industrial materials. I’m also interested in the intersection between drawing and sculpture and incorporating this within my practice to create a perceptual push and pull between two-dimensional sculpture and three-dimensional drawing".

artist CV

ACADEMIC HISTORY

2007          Bachelor of Fine Art with First Class Honours, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

2004          Fine Art Career Certificate, Santa Rosa Junior College, California, USA

COMMISSIONS

2025 Coalescence, Foyer Artworks, Keysborough South Community Hub, Keysborough, Melbourne

2024 Fluent, Suspended Lobby Sculpture, 160 Macquarie Street, Brisbane

2023 Resonate, Lonsdale Street Entrance Lobby Artwork, Emporium, Melbourne

2021 Sequent, Ballroom Atrium Artwork, Shenzhen World Exhibition and Convention Centre, China

2021 Amble, Plenary Hall Atrium Artwork, Shenzhen World Exhibition and Convention Centre, China

2020 Suspended Sculptures in Silver Ash & Ironbark Private Dining Rooms, Woodcut Restaurant, Crown Sydney

2018            Ascent, St Margaret's Anglican Girl School, Ascot, Brisbane

2017            Phase, Shenzhen Yifang Shopping Mall, Shenzhen, China

2015-16       Coalesce, Foyer Artwork, 1 William Street, Brisbane

2014-15       Substratum, Suspended Sculpture, T1 Domestic Pier, Perth Airport, Perth

2014           Perpetuate, Suspended Installation, Macquarie Centre, North Ryde, Sydney

2013-14      Convergence, Courtyard Sculpture, Somerville House, South Brisbane

2012-13      Mergence, Entrance Sculpture, 28 Hennessey Road, Hong Kong.

2011-13      Continuum, Atrium Sculpture, Infinity Tower, 43 Hershel St, Meriton, Brisbane

2010-12     Flume, NICU Courtyard, Gold Coast University Hospital, Gold Coast

2011           Interstice, Atrium Sculpture for Phoenix City, Beijing, China

2011          Unstable Surface Tension, Library Foyer, Griffith University, Nathan Campus, Brisbane

2009-10   Confluence, Foyer Sculpture for AECOM Brisbane Office, Wickham Street, Brisbane

2008         Transitional Viscosity, Foyer of Macmahon Building, SW1 South Brisbane