Esther Carlin - The air misses you

Esther Carlin
The air misses you (2021)
Inkjet print
Dimensions variable

Esther is an artist, filmmaker and researcher. She makes film-based installations that draw on her training in art and anthropology. Using ethnographic research methods, she develops artworks that articulate the importance of poetics as a way of examining specific institutional histories and sites, while asking questions of subject-making, imaging and representation. In 2019 she was the co-recipient of the ANCA EASS Exhibition Award. Her film, The Time of the Cévennes, which explores radical educator Fernand Deligny and his work with non-verbal autistic children, was shown as part of the Prototype Care Package series and reviewed in The Age. She has a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Visual Arts with First Class Honours from the Australian National University. Recent projects include: Gleaners (after Agnès Varda), Melbourne Art Library Bookplate commission, The tree sees double exhibition at ANCA Gallery, and A History of Student Activism at the Australian National University public artwork.