Exhibition - Carcass: The Death of the Animal

Carcass: The Death of the Animal explores the symbol of the animal carcass within art history, and how humanity’s reaction to this showcases our changing relationship with the natural world. Developed by the Western Plains Cultural Centre Curators and utilising works from its collection, as well as significant loans from the Art Gallery of NSW, the National Gallery of Australia, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, the exhibition explores how the representation of the carcass has transformed from the 17th century through to the 21st, its often-confronting representation, and how we contend with this emotionally and morally. Carcass is an investigation into how we as an audience react to death.

​​​Supported by Create NSW.​

Image: Judith Nangala Crispin, there’s a door inside a nebula­—where the dead go through. Marvin and Dorothy, still spinning, find one another on the other side of the stars, 2025. Lumachrome glass print, cliché-verre, chemigram. Cat-killed New York chipmunk and grey squirrel on fibre paper. Re-exposed with sand, ochre, wax, house paint, Vegemite and sand. First exposure 13 hours under Perspex in New York. Second exposure, 36 hours in a Braidwood greenhouse. Unique archival pigment print on Bayta II handmade paper, hand annotated in gold and silver leaf, on aluminium composite substrate. 75.0 x 66.0cm. Collection of the artist. Image © the artist.