Caroline Rothwell

Weather Maker

At a distance, the images and their materials seem familiar motifs of industrial modernism: smoke stacks, cannons, and airships. The materials, as well, are at first sight reassuringly frank: bronze, rubber, paper, ink. We are in what appears to be a 19th century archival project, a half affectionate documentation of a past safely dead and buried. On a second take, however, there is something clearly wrong here.

Exhibition Dates: 13 November – 13 December 2014
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Composition 2, 2014
aluminum leaf, UV-stable structural PVC
185 x 145 x 10 cm

Composition 4, 2014
aluminum leaf, UV-stable structural PVC
170 x 130 x 10 cm

Composition 3 - Damaged work - no longer exists, 2014
aluminum leaf, UV-stable structural PVC
200 x 92 x 10 cm

Composition 1, 2014
aluminum leaf, UV-stable structural PVC
206 x 242 x 10 cm

Climate Ship, 2014
Britannia metal, PVC, thread, stainless steel
85 x 100 x 14 cm

Wind Machine, 2013
Britannia metal, PVC, thread, stainless steel
87 x 45 x 25 cm

Figure, 2013
Britannia metal, PVC, dimensions variable, metal figure
34 x 16.5 x 23 cm

Cloud Seeder, 2014
Britannia metal
54 x 35 x 12 cm

Artificial Tree, 2013
63 x 21.5 x 6 cm

Climate Machine (SPICE 2), 2013
Britannia metal, PVC, thread, stainless steel
87 x 45 x 25 cm

Cloud Buster, 2013
Britannia metal
68 x 24 x 9 cm

Cloud seeding pump, 2014
Copper leaf, vehicle exhaust emission, acrylic binder on Arches hot pressed archival paper
76 x 57cm (paper), 80.5 x 61.5cm (framed)

Cloud Buster for Cosmic Orgone Engineering, 2014
Copper leaf, vehicle exhaust emission, acrylic binder on Arches hot pressed archival paper
76 x 57cm (paper), 80.5 x 61.5cm (framed)

Marine Cloud Brightening Vessel, 2014
Copper leaf, vehicle exhaust emission, acrylic binder on Arches hot pressed archival paper
76 x 57cm (paper), 80.5 x 61.5cm (framed)

Stratospheric aerosol cloud seeder, 2014
Copper leaf, vehicle exhaust emission, acrylic binder on Arches hot pressed archival paper
76 x 57cm (paper), 80.5 x 61.5cm (framed)

SPICE: Stratospheric Particle Injector for Climate Engineering, 2014
Copper leaf, vehicle exhaust emission, acrylic binder on Arches hot pressed archival paper
76 x 57cm (paper), 80.5 x 61.5cm (framed)

Artificial Trees, 2014
Copper leaf, vehicle exhaust emission, acrylic binder on Arches hot pressed archival paper
76 x 57cm (paper), 80.5 x 61.5cm (framed)

Tethered Marine Balloon Particle Injector, 2014
Copper leaf, vehicle exhaust emission, acrylic binder on Arches hot pressed archival paper
76 x 57cm (paper), 80.5 x 61.5cm (framed)

Mission 2013 Air Scrubber, 2014
Copper leaf, vehicle exhaust emission, acrylic binder on Arches hot pressed archival paper
76 x 57cm (paper), 80.5 x 61.5cm (framed)

Weather Maker, 2014
bronze, cupric nitrate patina, rope, thread, aerosol can, digital print on PVC, motion-sensor operated fan
160 x 38 x 38cm (girl), 400 x 160 x 160cm (overall)

Flow, 2013
UV stable structural PVC
252 x 225 cm

Circles, 2014
Britannia metal
80 x 310 x 19 cm

Caroline Rothwell Splice
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2019

Group Show, State of Play
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2017

Caroline Rothwell Falling Suspended
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2017

Caroline Rothwell Sculpture Terrace Commission
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2016-17

Caroline Rothwell Weather Maker
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2014

Caroline Rothwell Dark Heart
Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, 2014

Caroline Rothwell 10 degrees east
Grantpirrie Gallery, Sydney, 2011

Caroline Rothwell Dispersed
The Economist Plaza, presented by Contemporary Art Society, London, 2009