John Carney is an Artist and Researcher based in Manchester, and has been practicing since graduating with a BA (Hons) Fine Art from Kingston University in 2015. His artistic practice encompasses a number of disciplines, including sculpture, performance, public interventions, digital media and moving image. He graduated with an MA by Research from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2020, with a research project titled ‘Concretizing God – Fetishism and the Social Construction of Objects.”

John Carney’s work is concerned with exploring social agency, and furthermore the means by which cultural artefacts and visual material possess their own powerful social agency. Subsequently, his practice takes the form of researching examples of the uncanny, the sacred and the ideological, as well as identifying moments when these categories collapse into one another. These interests have led him to produce work through pursuing many different research topics, including though not limited to; mourning rituals, fetishism, commodification, the afterlife, sacred objects and political slogans.