Francis Carmody was born in 1998 on Gadigal Country in Warrang/Sydney, New South Wales, and now lives and works on Wurundjeri Woi‑wurrung and Bunurong/Boon Wurrung Country in Naarm/Melbourne, Victoria.

His practice often centres on the figure of the dog—a creature caught between wildness and domestication—to explore broader themes of power, control, and human intervention.

In Carmody’s work, the dog becomes a symbol loaded with tension. Multiple ropes tether the canine to a stake, implying a ferocity far greater than its physical size. The simplified, dissected form—with its intestinal tract abstractly outlined as though poisoned—suggests that the scene offers a moral or cautionary lesson. Here, Carmody positions the wolf‑turned‑dog as a metaphor for the expansive human impulse to tame, restrain, manipulate, and contaminate other beings.

Through his sculptural language, Carmody reflects on the uneasy relationships between dominance and submission, nature and artifice, and the psychological forces that drive humans to exert control over the world around them.