Artist Statement
Carolyn investigates the shapes, colours and textures found in landscape. She looks for bold forms and layers these, overlapping and interlocking them, the spaces between being as important as the shapes themselves. She is working between the seen and unseen, alluding to the real yet re-imagining it.
Her process involves working from drawing to painting, from observing small details to abstracting them into lines and organic shapes, which evoke the original subject matter but do not represent it exactly. As well as her strong use of colour, mark making, pattern and texture are integral to her work.
EDUCATION
2018- 2021 Bachelor of Fine Arts, National Art School, Sydney.
1983-1986 Part-time Diploma in Drawing and Painting, Meadowbank TAFE, NSW.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Ewart Prize, Willoughby Arts Centre
2024 Ewart Prize, Willoughby Arts Centre
2022 Clyde & Co Art Award, Clyde & Co Sydney Office
2022 The Grad Show, National Art School, Darlinghurst, NSW.
2020 Beyond These Walls, NAS Library Stairwell Gallery, National Art School, Sydney.
2020 Covid Quilt, National Art School, Darlinghurst, NSW.
2017 The Greenway Prize, local artist section, Art Est. Gallery, Sydney.
2017 Pine Street Printmakers Exhibition, The Shop Gallery, Sydney.
2016 Impressions, Willoughby Incinerator Art Space, Sydney, 2016
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Exhibition of Paintings, The Manse, Lewisham.
2026 A Sense of Place, The Corner Gallery, Stanmore.
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2020 Beyond These Walls, NAS Library Stairwell Gallery, National Art, School Sydney.
COLLECTIONS
Works held in various private collections in Sydney and NSW.