Narcotics, Preservatives, Skeptics :
Corey Black

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Corey Black, 2026

Narcotics, Preservatives, Skeptics is an exhibition of new works by Corey Black. The works in this show utilise containment, transparency and opacity to flirt with and disrupt the membranes of surface, image and materiality. Utilising discreet structures fabricated from perspex and timber, found and manipulated media are cut, rearranged, and transferred onto their surfaces. The exhibition foregrounds the ways surfaces transmit affect and the pleasure of cutting within structures that hold various and multiple images and objects. Protective yet assertive, they probe the thresholds between image, substrate, and viewer. Black’s images are specific yet scattered, drawing from personal archives, medical documentation and digital media – they unfold as actants in space as though chemicals passing through a body.

Each work contains elements that are baked into their own discreet networks, creating self-contained yet open vantage points. Sculptural extractions extend imagery into space. Therein one can find a list of ingredients for seeing, being and consuming each work; individually and wholly.

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Exhibition artist

Corey Black

Corey Black is an artist based on Gadigal land whose practice fuses diverse fabrication methods. Collaborating with materials, technicians and machines, he employs disruptive modalities to unveil novel forms. Pushing complex compositions through occulted processes, his work probes production itself, challenging entrenched pathways of consumption, technology and seduction within 21st-century art-making.

Black holds an MFA from the National Art School. He has exhibited with Firstdraft, Minerva, Sydenham International, Hidden Rookwood and undertaken residencies at the Corridor Project and the British School at Rome. Black held the position of co-director of Schmick Contemporary in 2024.

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