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Art / 2021–2026

Fungal Art Series

A continuing body of grown surfaces, where biological variation becomes the image.

Year
2021–2026
Location
Studio archive
Materials
Mycelium and plant fibres; variable substrates and finishes
Credits
Andy Cartier · Studio Cartier
Vertical Fungal Art Series panel: silver-grey grown relief on white, with a large field of gold leaf in the upper right.
01 / The process

Cultivate the conditions.

The Fungal Art Series begins with mycelium and plant-based substrates. Growth produces relief, variation and colour that cannot be specified as a repeated surface pattern. The work comes from tending those conditions and responding to what appears.

After cultivation, the surfaces are dried and finished for presentation. Close photographs show fibres and ridges at a scale the eye can miss when viewing the complete piece.

02 / The works

No two surfaces alike.

The archive spans framed pieces, close material studies and larger compositions. Some works stand alone; others enter into dialogue with furniture and interior space.

Each surface keeps the irregularities of its growth. Seen together, the works show a family resemblance without becoming a repeated motif.

26 images / Open to explore
Vertical Fungal Art Series panel: silver-grey grown relief on white, with a large field of gold leaf in the upper right.
01Finished work with gold leaf
Close-up where gold leaf meets a folded silver-grey surface and white ground.
02Detail: gold leaf following the grown relief
Vertical panel with sweeping rust and ochre diagonal strokes over white, and a dense silver-grey textured zone at the bottom.
03Finished work: rust-toned strokes over a silver-grey base
Close-up of overlapping triangular planes edged in rust brown on a pale surface, with grey patches.
04Detail: rust-edged planes
Vertical panel that is almost entirely white, with fine raised lines and a faint grid-like relief.
05Finished work: white relief
Close-up of a grey-white surface broken into angular fragments outlined in rust.
06Detail: crackled white and rust surface
Three tall panels in rust, gold and white, displayed side by side against a corrugated wall, with a low table and sofa in front.
07The three works shown together
Panel in a wooden frame leaning against a wall, with a diagonal band of sunlight across its rust, cream and grey surface.
08Framed work in raking sunlight
Black-framed panel with an all-over mottled pattern of ochre, rust and silver-grey.
09Framed study: ochre and silver mottling
Close-up of a cream surface flecked and pooled with bright orange and rust.
10Detail: orange and rust tones
Panel with brown speckled and swept texture in a copper-coloured frame, hanging on a pale grey wall.
11Work in a copper-toned frame
Close-up of a surface printed with a fine rust-brown grid texture, crossed by wavy cream bands.
12Detail: grid texture crossed by pale bands
Vertical panel, cream on the left and densely speckled in red-brown on the right, hung on a white wall.
13Finished work: dense brown speckling
Close-up of a soft grey surface with dark rust-coloured shapes along the left edge.
14Detail: rust forms on grey
Wide landscape-format panel with radiating rust strokes and a silver-grey area, mounted on a corrugated metal wall.
15Horizontal work on the exhibition wall
Panel with a dotted grid texture and soft grey patches, propped against a hedge in sunlight.
16Work photographed outdoors
Close-up of gold leaf laid over a silver-grey surface full of folds and ridges.
17Detail: gold leaf and silver relief
Two vertical panels with gold, bronze and cream textures, lit on a white gallery wall.
18Two gold-toned works on a gallery wall
A grown surface held up in strong sunlight, showing gold flecks and soft grey-green relief.
19Surface in direct sunlight
A green and pink textured panel leaning on a black console table in a hallway.
20Work in a domestic interior
Hands holding a round grown disc and a rectangular grown block, both cream and fibrous.
21Grown material in hand
Andy Cartier arranging small grown pieces on a stack of panels, with a large work behind.
22Setting up the display
Andy Cartier in profile, holding a circular panel with cream, rust and ochre textures.
23Andy Cartier with a round work
Andy Cartier touching the edge of a panel where the gold leaf glows orange in the light.
24Andy Cartier with the gold-leaf work
Rendered interior, not a photograph: a vaulted room with a grid of Fungal Art panels on the ceiling and back wall, two armchairs and low tables.
25Visualisation (render): the series as a wall and ceiling installation
Andy Cartier reclining on a sofa, looking at three tall panels on a corrugated wall.
26Viewing the works
Fungal Art Series
Vertical Fungal Art Series panel: silver-grey grown relief on white, with a large field of gold leaf in the upper right.

1 / 26Finished work with gold leaf

From Andy’s workbench

The thinking
continues

Art / processFungal Art Series #13Art / materialMycelium grown into textilesAll field notes
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