My paintings self perpetuate and work themselves out on the surface, being continuously built up and reworked. Informing themselves towards an unknown end, to be alive though, through a process of symbiosis and evolution.

Paint is applied liberally in thick daubs, splattered and smeared, poured on and scraped off with brushes, knives, sticks, spoons, mixed in cups, and squeezed straight out of the tube.

Loosely exploring gestural abstraction, action painting, colour field painting and incorporating a kind of crude personal symbolism, paint is unloaded freely and impulsively to create work that is energetic and evocative, ambiguous yet familiar, at once becoming and falling apart, immediate and slow.

Canvases often become sculptural in their development, with layers of paint applied over weeks, months and years. Information crystallising into immersive and textured atmospheres, like ecosystems or worlds that you can peer into and explore.

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Carney exhibited in solo shows at The Rag Factory, London in 2009, 2011 and 2012 and at the Brewery, Cheltenham 2007. Group shows include Untitled, Scintill art, Garden Room, Barbican, London, 2010; Pittville Degree Show, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, 2008 and the Hans Brinker Budget Trophy, Hans Brinker Budget Hotel, Amsterdam, 2007. He completed a residency at The Brewery, Cheltenham, 2007. He was included in The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2012. A print of his, Trojan Horse, was included in the Government Art Collection in 2012. Carney exhibited at Westminster reference library, London, 2014. Small White Elephant and the Yard, London, 2018. And more recently At The Hundred Years Gallery group show ‘Change’.