Charli Rose

So excited to be running TWO mushroom papermaking workshops at Stamp Gallery in Marrickville next weekend! Participants will be guided through a hands-on workshop learning to make paper with mushroom pulp! All ages welcome, under 14’s must be accompanied by an adult. Ticket links and information for each class are available below Saturday 9th May, 10-1pm (almost sold out!): /e/mushroom-paper-making-workshop-with-charli-rose-gerry-saturday-tickets-1987588491683? Sunday 10th May, 10-1pm: .au/e/mushroom-paper-making-workshop-with-charli-rose-gerry-sunday-tickets-1988061236676? Thanks to all who reached out and purchased tickets early. We will have so much fun together!

It’s your time again, my friends

After dark with ‘rot not ruin’ (2026) hand-made fungus papers (amanita muscaria, Armillaria luteobubalina), recycled kozo & cellulose-based fibres, rice glue, cotton thread Been lingering with all the messy and uneasy labour fungi embody and enact. A cyclical existence of unravelling, metabolising, rebirthing. Their embrace of collapse as potential for transformation. Working with fragmented papers made me think of precarity and unboundedness and Anna Tsing’s musings on life emerging from the “unruly edges”. In a reality obsessed with smooth surfaces and conquests of relentless control and growth, what resistance can rise in the slow processes of decomposition? For group show Overgrowth, curated by the lovely Anwyn @anwynbrookevans @pact_sydney

beacons, 2026 with Woollahra (as) assemblage, 2025 foraged funga and flora, red beeswax, stainless steel wire, crimps, found stick 106 or so fungal forms & fallen flora found over many small forages in many big places this summer. Thanks to all that juicy rain. Each dipped in special red beeswax courtesy of @tatsianashevarenkova For @pendulum_theta last month, curated by the most wonderful Balram @celosiafields alongside an inspiring group of artists. Biggest thank you to Nick for installing with me in the heat Photos by @byron_martin_ and William Jordan

‚Staying with the Trouble‘ Artist Feature : Charli Rose Gerry ‚hyphal exchange, 2025, 42h x 71.8w x 4d (cm), hand-made papers (foraged amanita muscaria, marasmius maximus, recycled kozo fibres, recycled cellulose-based fibres), cotton embroidery thread, perspex, blackwood frame This piece will be shown at Rofe Street Gallery, Leichhardt, from 6-9PM on the 20th of February, 2026
 Fungi are plural, promiscuous, and ubiquitous. Their complex lifecycles and ecological interdependencies resist classification, exhibiting a stark otherness that disrupts our very human impulse to form hierarchies within the living world. From yeasts, rusts, and smuts to moulds, mushrooms, and mycelium, fungi exhibit traits not found in plants, animals, or other more-than-human agents. As symbiotic organisms deeply entangled with their environment, fungi cannot survive - nor be studied - in isolation. Fungal mycelium embodies and enacts the agency of exchange. By absorbing nutrients and releasing enzymes to decompose matter, mycelium form networks of thread-like hyphae that trade water, carbon, and nutrients between plants. These electric webs offer exciting prompts for us to perceive the world differently. Such symbiotic collaborations can challenge human exceptionalism by emphasising sustained interactions between beings. And understanding that no earthly becoming happens in isolation can shift the ways we approach seemingly independent structures, systems and things. Focusing on mycelium can invigorate opportunities for humans to ethically contaminate and collaborate across constructed species binaries. Fungi show us a nature that is not separate but entangled with our every thought, every action. Through fungi, we can re-learn what it means to live, to think, to move and create in the company of bodies unlike yet intertwined with our own Portrait by @harrietbrowse

Quiet, unforgettable moments spent with Hàng, Mai and their families in Làng Sung, a hidden village nestled in the mountains of North East Vietnam (close to Da Bac region). This magic jungle is home to the Dao Tien ethnic group. Hàng’s family not only shared with me their ancient cultural traditions; indigo dying, brocade-weaving & dó paper-making, but welcomed me into their hearts and home. Together we foraged cajuput, assam indigo and Rau Móng Róng leaves to ferment and extract natural dyes and oils, stripped bark from the dó trees for paper and harvested seeds to make sauces for our lunches and dinners. I exchanged languages and stories with Hàng, Mai and their mother, shared homemade rice wine with Hàng’s husband and explored the forest with their daughter and her friends. The long processes these practices demand are carried out with a deep care, patience and respect for the land and for each-other. Any form of extraction is reciprocated tenfold with gestures of abundance. For the Dao Tien, relationality is a living/breathing ritual. I still haven’t quite come to terms with just how embraced and protected Hang’s community made me feel. Just grateful to have been entangled in such a monumental web of love ❤️

It’s not often I find myself lost for words, but a recent venture around Vietnam has left me speechless. Quite fitting for a place and people composed of pure love. More soon.

Fungus Paper Research Project (Book Edition), 2025 earlier this year I made a book for my solo show, as yet another iteration of my ongoing fungus paper-making research. each page is made from particular mushrooms I foraged across different landscapes, which I then morphed into paper form. i experimented with a variety of new mushrooms for this piece (armillaria, marasmius maximus, russula vinacea) and was constantly surprised by their aesthetic & material range, porousness and scents. flicking through this book is like sensorial teleportation; strong, soily musks hit you right in the face as fingers trace over textures imagined by the underground. each page holds the stories/rhythms/kinships distinct to a special place and time, embodied in the mushrooms ephemeral form. to me, this book is an entry point to the mycelial cosmos; electrifyingly alive yet hidden from plain sight. i asked Roberta (@bluesprucewanderings ) to send some of her myco creations across the world to include in this edition. since Roberta is the only other artist I know working with fungi in this way, it only made sense to collaborate and exchange our foreign fungal networks. now this book is packed up & ready to journey across the skies to live with her in New York for the next little while 🌠 handmade book comprised of hand-made papers (various foraged mushrooms), wool thread, rice glue, foam board, transparent paper, water-based ink

a delightfully messy n manic start to my year. balancing a practice of sloooooow processes; researching, gathering, mapping, potion-making, world building 🌬️ fungi foraying w my precious Maya, studio paraphernalia, beautiful strangers with ‘myco-encryption’ at group show ‘Document’, magic pulp (amanita muscaria), a moment of studio frenzy, fleshy wood ears, marasmius maximus paper to-be, ‘you and I are earth’ light test, hands as extensions of the heart, ‘amanita muscaria light study’ WIP, fungus paper research project in process, paper-making with the rising sun, detailed view of ‘the soil she breathes because of them’

some photos from my fungus paper-making workshop in May @woollahragallery Such an exciting, messy, incredibly joyous day! Grateful to those who travelled far and wide to experience my practice. Can’t wait to host more in the future :-) big love to @mayaamw_ for capturing these moments and ensuring the day ran smoothly, with the help of the lovely Woollahra volunteers <3

Farewell to my solo exhibition ‘Webs of Relation’ which has now closed @woollahragallery I’m bursting with gratitude from the support I’ve been shown over the past 2 weeks. She was a short show so I truly appreciate all efforts made to move through and engage with the space ~ it’s been a lot of fun to witness interactions between visitors and my work! Thank you to the whole team at Woollahra and the village of beings that helped me pull it all together - you know exactly who you are!!! Special thanks to @cesca__studio and @bluesprucewanderings for their wondrous collaborations and contributions, @naattaliie for loaning me her gorgeous table for display and of course to fungi, for life on earth as we know it brb, heading underground to process 🕸️ pics by @jessica_maurer_photography

Thank you to all who attended the opening of ‘Webs of Relation’ last week @woollahragallery , and to everyone who has passed through the space since. It’s been such a joy to share these fungal co-creations with the world. I’m overwhelmed by the love and support! The exhibition continues through this week until Sunday the 15th of June ~ with the gallery open until 6pm today also Please join me for some wine in the gardens surrounding the gallery this Saturday 14th between 2-4pm, as I prepare to farewell my show and studio, and celebrate the last week of my 4 month artist residency at Woollahra image by the most wonderful @jessica_maurer_photography 🍄‍🟫