Caroline Rothwell

CAROLINE ROTHWELL

Born in Yorkshire, England, Caroline Rothwell currently lives and works on Gadigal Country in Sydney.

EDUCATION

Hunter College, City University of New York/ University of Auckland, MFA, sculpture

Camberwell College of Arts, University of Arts London, BA

Wimbledon School of Art, London, Art Foundation Diploma

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBTIIONS

What if we could remember the future, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney 

Corpus, Yavus Gallery, Singapore

Horizon, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, Gymea

Bloom Lab, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne

Infinite Herbarium, The Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney

Splice, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Ex Situ, Verghis Art, London. Curated by Nina Miall

Falling Suspended, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Turbulence, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne

System, Antipodes, Australian Print Workshop, Victoria

Composer, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Loti Smorgon Sculpture Terrace

Habit, wall drawing for Temple Contemporary, Philadelphia, USA

Cartwheeling Youngsters, Rhodes Foreshore, Canada Bay Council

Urpflanze Street Plants, Museum of Economy Botany, Adelaide

Weather Maker, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

The Pulse of Time (with Chiharu Shiota), Future Perfect, Singapore

Borderlands, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne

Murray/Darling Vista, The Drawing Wall, Shepparton Art Museum, Victoria

10 degrees east, Grantpirrie Gallery, Sydney

Caroline Rothwell, India Art Summit, Grantpirrie Gallery, New Delhi

Transmutationism, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne

Dispersed, The Economist Plaza, London presented by Contemporary Art Society, London

Slamina, Maddox Arts, London

Exotopos, Grantpirrie Gallery, Sydney

Blowback, Artspace, Sydney

Blowback, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne

The Law of Unintended Consequences, Grantpirrie Gallery, Sydney

New Worlds, Grantpirrie Gallery, Sydney

Into the Woods, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland

Elsewhere, Djanogly Art Gallery, Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham

Migrations, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland

Psychodiagnostics, Hanging Space, London

Orchis 4, Richard Walls Gallery, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin

Heat Rash, Vavasour/Godkin Gallery, Auckland

up side down, Vavasour/Godkin Gallery, Auckland

New Work, Vavasour/Godkin Gallery, Auckland

Shift, Gregory Flint Gallery, Auckland

New Sculpture, Gregory Flint Gallery, Auckland

New Work, Spitalfields Centre, London

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Art Taipei, Taipei Nangang Exhibition Centre, Taipei City, Taiwan

A Plant in the Wrong Place, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne

Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney

SPACE 22 Exhibition and Fundraiser, Artereal Gallery, Sydney

Of Gods and Monsters, Grand Courts Rehang, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney

Destination Sydney: The Natural World, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney

Beyond, Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne

Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

The National 2021: New Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney

The Natural World, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne

Ravenswood Art Prize, Ravenswood School for Girls, Sydney (winner)

Sir John Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (finalist)

Closer than they appear, Yavuz Gallery, Singapore

Dora Ohlfsen & the façade, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

LoveArt International, isolation project, Sydney

Femmage, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Hong Kong Art Basel, Yavuz Gallery, Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong

Decade+, Art Omi, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney

The Lady and the Unicorn, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Make Known: The Exquisite Order of Infinite Variation, UNSW Galleries, Sydney

The Lady and the Unicorn Collection Bestiary, Art Gallery of New South Wales

Hong Kong Art Basel, Yavuz Gallery, Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong

Wynne Art Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (finalist)

National Photographic Prize, Murray Art Museum

Imagine, Gippsland Art Gallery

All We Can’t See, Yellow House, Sydney

Fragil II: Australian Art at the XII Bienal de Cuenca, Kronenberg Wright Artists Projects, Sydney

Inspiracje 2017, TRAFO Centre for Contemporary Art, Szczecin, Poland

Her Nature, Maddox Arts, London

Another Green World: The landscape of the 21st Century, Western Plains Cultural Centre

Paramor Prize: Art + Innovation, finalist, Casula Powerhouse

Seeing Science, Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Sydney

Imagine, Gippsland Art Gallery

@50, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne

Glover Prize, finalist, Tasmania

STATE OF PLAY, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Seeing Science, Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Sydney

The 13th International Cuenca Biennial: IMPERMANENCIA, Ecuador

Antipodes Cut Apart, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK

Art Basel Hong Kong, Tolarno Galleries

Tipping Points, Gallery Bergen, New Jersey, USA

Fantastic Worlds, Rockhampton Art Gallery, Queensland

Fragil, XIII Biennale of Cuenca, Ecuador

Print, Chelsea Arts Club, London

Solid State, Casula Powerhouse, Liverpool, NSW

Installation Contemporary, Sydney Contemporary curated by The Curators Department

Grey Matter, Artbank, Sydney

Temple Contemporary, Philadelphia

Studio, Omi International Arts Center, New York

Quo Vadis: The Last Drawing Show, UNSW Galleries, Sydney

2014 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art /Dark Heart, Art Gallery of South Australia

Conflict: Contemporary Responses to War, University of Queensland Art Museum

The Gathering II, sculpture survey, Wangaratta Art Gallery, Victoria

Redlands Art Prize, National Art School Gallery, Sydney

Art Basel Hong Kong, Tolarno Galleries

Form and Substance, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane

Australia, Contemporary Voices, Fine Art Society, London

Sydney Contemporary, Starkwhite, Auckland

NEW 2013: Selected recent acquisitions, University of Queensland Art Museum

Burying Time, Breenspace, Sydney

Collectors Space, CASS, Artmonth, Sydney

Tall Tales, Shepparton Art Museum

The Blake Prize, touring: S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney; Delmar Gallery Ashfield; Australian Jewish Museum, Melbourne; Cessnock Regional Gallery

Artists in Residence (Brook Andrew, Mikala Dwyer, Caroline Rothwell), Central Park, Sydney

Panorama: are we there yet, Casula Powerhouse, Liverpool, NSW

Silver, Wangaratta Art Gallery, Victoria

Double Vision, McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park, Victoria

PlatForm, Agnew's Gallery, London

ARTHK10, Tolarno Galleries, Hong Kong International Art Fair

No Place to Hide, Macquarie University Gallery, Sydney

Un-natural, Redlands Public Art Gallery, Queensland

The LoveArt Collection, Casula Powerhouse, Liverpool, NSW

Your Move, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria (travelling)

Lexicon, 5 person alumni show, Camberwell College of Arts, London

ARTHK10, Grantpirrie Gallery, Hong Kong International Art Fair

Kathy Temin and Caroline Rothwell, New Sculpture, Newcastle Art Gallery

McClelland Sculpture Survey, McClelland Sculpture Park, Victoria

New 2009: Selected Recent Acquisitions, University of Queensland Art Museum

Darwin's Bastards, Verge Gallery, University of Sydney

Cass Sculpture Foundation, Goodwood Sculpture Park, England

Nature ID, Jan Manton Gallery, Brisbane

We are unsuitable for framing, Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand

Summer Show, Maddox Arts, London

Neo-goth/back in black, University of Queensland Art Museum

Wastestate, Bearspace, London

Cardoso, Quilty, Rothwell & Zavros, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide

The Dream Festival, Yarra River, Melbourne

2007 - The Year in Art, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney

New Nature: Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand

Arc Biennial, Brisbane

Bloodlines: Art and the horse, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery (travelling)

Poor Yorick, Riverway Arts Centre, Townsville

Unreal-esque, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney

Terminus: First Fleet Park, Circular Quay, Sydney

Random Access, McClelland Sculpture Park & Gallery, Victoria

Material Girls and Boys, Deloittes Head Office, Sydney

CCB Exhibition & Auction, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Shift/break, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth

3D Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, USA,

Wonderland, Artspace, Auckland

Scape Art + Industry Biennial, Christchurch

Changing Spaces - Sculpture Now, Wellington International Arts Festival

Memos for a New Millennium, Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland

Interior Horizons: Art on the verge of Architecture and Design, Te Tuhi Gallery, Manukau

The Contingency of Vision, Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland

Off the Wall, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Bloom, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland

Adrift, Conical Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne

Prospect 2001: New Art New Zealand, City Gallery, Wellington

Colour, Queen Street Studio Gallery, Belfast (travelling)

Wall Drawings: John Reynolds & Caroline Rothwell, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland

Measure of Strangeness, Artspace, Auckland

Visa Gold/Wallace Award finalist, Wellington City Art Gallery, Christchurch

The Promoter, Ten Artists Northern Steamship Co, Auckland

Committed, Pakuranga Centre, Manukau City

MFAs in NY, Hunter College Gallery, New York

Chairs, Vavasour/Godkin Gallery Auckland

100x100x100, Drawings Gallery, Auckland

Exposure, Auckland City Art Gallery

SELECTED COMMISSIONS / PROJECTS / AWARDS

Ravenswood Art Prize, Ravenswood School for Girls, Sydney (winner)

Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (finalist)

Sir John Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (finalist)

Google Creative Lab, artist collaboration

Global Office Plants, public sculpture commission, 286 Sussex Street, Sydney

National Photographic Prize, Murray Art Museum (finalist)

Sculpture Terrace Commission, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Cambridge University, invitational research and print folio project (Australian Print Workshop)

Canada Bay Council, Rhodes Foreshore, Cartwheeling Youngsters

City of Sydney, City Spaces, Barrack St, Youngsters

Central Park, Sydney, Symbiosis

City of Sydney, Albion Place, Watling's Tree

Hong Kong International Art Fair, artist's project

Artspace, Sydney: Crop Seed (poppy) donated multiple

Deutsche Bank, Sydney, Milky Silkpod

Ferrier Hodgson, Grosvenor Place, Tessellated & Birdland

Auckland City, Tree

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Shadows

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Lisa Slade, 'Curator's Radar: Caroline Rothwell' Art Collector, Issue 99, January-March

Elizabeth Fortescue, 'Second Nature - Caroline Rothwell', Look Magazine, April May

Merryn Porter, 'Nature, viruses inspire new exhibition at Hazelhurst Arts Centre', The Leader, 25 June

Linda Morris, ''Micro-forest' of endangered species takes over city laneway', Sydney Morning Herald, 10 January

Caroline Rothwell, 'Infinite Herbarium', Google, June

Shane Wolff Artists - What Now', Art Collector, issue 89, September, pp. 96 - 97.pdf

Deborah McIntosh, 'The Art House', Highlife, April and May, pp. 78 - 88

Andrew Taylor, 'Caroline Rothwell's sculpture composes the weather at the MCA' Sydney Morning Herald, May 18, 2016

Caroline Rothwell, Turbulence, 5 to see this weekend, Aesthetica Magazine,12/8/16

Antipodes, Cambridge TV, UK, 27/6/16

Blair, U, The Stories we Tell, Imprint Publication, Feature, Volume 51, No 2, 7/16

Backhouse, M, Antipodes, Feature, Art Guide 15/5/16

Brown, A, Rothwell composes the weather at MCA, Sydney Morning Herald,

Nick Galvin, Mystery plaque behind 'Youngster' sculpture highlights plight of refugee children, Sydney Morning Herald, 1 June 2015

Stephanie Bunbury, Artists set aside black and white divide for Australian Print Workshop project in Cambridge, The Age, 12 May 2015

Sue Gardiner, Art in the age of an ecological emergency, Art News New Zealand, Autumn 2015

Rogers, A, Art born through pollutants, Temple News, Philadelphia, 13,10.15

Artcop21, Habit, http://www.artcop21.com/events/habit 7/10/15

Lausch, B, Using soot, artist draws mural…, Temple University News, 1/10/16

Kahlil, S, Artist Creates six `cartwheeling' sculptures…The Daily Telegraph, 17/6/15

Bunbury, S, Artists set aside black and white divide..., The Age, 12/5/15

Rule, D, Australian artists search Cambridge for printed history, Sydney Morning Herald, 5/3/15

Bennett & Beudel, Curating Sydney: Imagining the City's Future: energy + agency, p 150-151

Keys, M, Caroline Rothwell, Residency, Art Collector, Issue 71, 1/15, pg 136-141

Dark Heart /Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, publication

Caroline Rothwell, Urpflanze Street Plants, Museum of Economic Botany, publication

Keogh, A, Uber Weeds: Where Art meets Science, InDaily 11/4/14

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Contemporary Collectors Benefactors 21 years, publication

Forbes, S, Greenspace, Museum of Economic Botany, Adelaide Review, 5/14

Thomson, J, Dark Heart, Asian Art News, 5/14

The New Collectors Book, 2014, Edition 3, New York

Flannery, T, conversation, Sturgeon, Artbank publication, Issue 1, 11/13

M, Stock, Rothwell and Shiota exhibition Review, World Sculpture News, 5/13

Fitzgerald, M, Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum, Sydney's public spaces… 31/8/13Forrest, N, Blouin Artinfo, interview 22/5/13 http://au.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/905522/caroline-rothwell-on-the-pulse-of-time-at-future-perfect

Wang, Y, The Muse, Singapore, Curator Nina Miall on `The Pulse of Time: Shiota & Rothwell

http://www.themuse.com.sg/2013/05/curator-nina-miall-on-future-perfects-the-pulse-of-time-exhibition

NEW 2013: Selected recent acquisitions, publication, University of Queensland Art Museum

Sculpture magazine, commissions in brief, 4/13

Frost, A, The Art life, review, Burying Time, 25/1/13, http://theartlife.com.au/2013/burying-time

Strevens, L, Sydney Morning Herald, Beacon on Broadway lifeblood of city, 29/10/12, pg 2

Fullwood, A, Australian Financial Review, Making Art Pay, 20/10/12

Backhouse, M, The Age, Caroline Rothwell, Borderlands, 6/10/12

Taylor A, Sydney Morning Herald, No cars but lots of art in vision for George St, 20/9/12

Wallace, G, City Spaces, City of Sydney publication 09/12

Loxley, A, Borderlands, exhibition publication

Flynn, P, Caroline Rothwell, Artist Profile, Issue 20, Aug 2012, pg 72-78

Loxley, A, Caroline Rothwell's Irrational logic, Art + Australia, Issue 50, Aug 2012, pg 130-137

Fortescue, E, Splash Out (City Spaces), The Daily Telegraph, 15/9/12

Frost, A, 10 degrees east, Sydney Morning Herald, critics choice, 9/9/11

Mehta, M, Expressions of Art and Soul, The Times of India, 29/1/11

Capes-Baldwin, R, Transmutation, Art Gallery of South Australia, Articulate, Issue 2

No Room to Hide, Macquarie University, exhibition publication

McClelland Sculpture Award & Survey, exhibition publication

Arthub, artist profile

Your Move: Australian Artists Play Chess, exhibition publication

Nelson, R, Transmutation review, The Age, Melbourne, 25/08/10

Nair, U, ArtHK10: A place to cherish sculptors, The Economic Times, India

Spencer-Jones, R, Daily Telegraph, UK, 26/10/09: 10 best places to see sculpture outdoors…

The Contemporary Art Society and The Economist group. Caroline Rothwell, Dispersed

Turner, J, Slamina, exhibition publication

Johnston, R, Caroline Rothwell - Extopos, Antennae Journal, UK

Clement, T, Sydney Morning Herald, Critics Picks, 20/2/09

Crawford, A, What happens when a mouse breeds with a tiger, exhibition publication

Bawden, L, Caroline Rothwell, Extopos, New Zealand Art Monthly (online), April http://www.nzartmonthly.co.nz/carolinerothwell_001.html

Art and Australia, exhibitions

Crawford, A, Gothic candour: I am the coffin that will not be silent, Art Monthly Australia, no 216

Morrow, C, Architecture of Shadows: the sculptures of Caroline Rothwell, Column 2

Somerville, J, Interview, New Work, Art World, #2

Clements, T, Law of Unintended Consequences, review, Sculpture Magazine (USA)

Higgins, J, Caroline Rothwell, 50 Most Collectable Artists, Australian Art Collector, #43

Lewis, C, Exhibition Preview, Australian Art Collector, # 40

Crawford, Ashley, Caroline Rothwell, 50 of Australia's Most Collectable Artists, Australian Art Collector, # 39

Iaccarino, C, The Law of Unintended Consequences, Sydney Morning Herald, 28/4/07

Clement, T, Sydney Morning Herald, critics picks, 5/4/07

Middleton, J, Artist Profile: Caroline Rothwell, National Association for the Visual Arts

Jones, J, Growing awareness, Hybrid review, Daily Telegraph 9/6/06

artist's interview, 2SCR

Lewis, C, Terminus projects, www.terminusprojects.org

Lindsay, R, Random Access, exhibition publication

Clement, T, Critic's Pick, Sydney Morning Herald, 23/9/05

Lewis, C, New Worlds, exhibition catalogue

Australian Vogue, interview, October

Martin, L, School's first resident artist …, Sydney Morning Herald, 16/3/05

Caroline Rothwell, resident in Bondi, Art in New Zealand

Rees, S, Break/Shift, Govett-Brewster publication

Material Girls and Boys, exhibition publication

RESIDENCIES

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, UK

Art OMI International Artists Residency, New York, USA

Studio residency, Artspace, Sydney

Artist in Residence, Margaret Whitlam Studio, Bondi Public School, Sydney

Universitas 21 Inaugural Cultural Residency, artist in residence, Nottingham, United Kingdom

COLLECTIONS

Art Gallery of New South Wales

Art Gallery of South Australia

Artbank

Auckland Art Gallery, NZ

Auckland University, NZ

Australia Club

Chartwell Trust, NZ

City of Sydney

Deutschebank

Ferrier Hodgson

James Wallace Trust

Lyons Housemuseum

Ministry of Internal Affairs, NZ

Museum of Contemporary Art Australia

National Gallery of Australia

OMI International Arts Center, New York

Shepparton Art Museum

State Library of Victoria

Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand

University of Cambridge, UK

University of Queensland Art Museum

Private Collections worldwide