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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aluminum leaf, UV-stable structural PVC
200 x 92 x 10 cm
63 x 21.5 x 6 cm
Copper leaf, vehicle exhaust emission, acrylic binder on Arches hot pressed archival paper
76 x 57cm (paper), 80.5 x 61.5cm (framed)
Copper leaf, vehicle exhaust emission, acrylic binder on Arches hot pressed archival paper
76 x 57cm (paper), 80.5 x 61.5cm (framed)
Copper leaf, vehicle exhaust emission, acrylic binder on Arches hot pressed archival paper
76 x 57cm (paper), 80.5 x 61.5cm (framed)
Copper leaf, vehicle exhaust emission, acrylic binder on Arches hot pressed archival paper
76 x 57cm (paper), 80.5 x 61.5cm (framed)
Copper leaf, vehicle exhaust emission, acrylic binder on Arches hot pressed archival paper
76 x 57cm (paper), 80.5 x 61.5cm (framed)
Copper leaf, vehicle exhaust emission, acrylic binder on Arches hot pressed archival paper
76 x 57cm (paper), 80.5 x 61.5cm (framed)
Copper leaf, vehicle exhaust emission, acrylic binder on Arches hot pressed archival paper
76 x 57cm (paper), 80.5 x 61.5cm (framed)
Copper leaf, vehicle exhaust emission, acrylic binder on Arches hot pressed archival paper
76 x 57cm (paper), 80.5 x 61.5cm (framed)
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)
The daughter of an industrial chemist, Caroline Rothwell poses questions regarding humankind’s control of nature. With a practice that spans over two decades, Rothwell enables us to think about the colonising imperative of recent centuries and our compulsion to master natural forces. With sculptures that border on the surreal and the anthropomorphic, Rothwell pushes us to consider our own response to such issues.
Exhibition view, Caroline Rothwell, Splice, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery (9 August – 31 August 2019)
Exhibition view, Caroline Rothwell, Splice, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery (9 August – 31 August 2019)
Exhibition view, Caroline Rothwell, Splice, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery (9 August – 31 August 2019)
Exhibition view, Caroline Rothwell, Falling Suspended, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery (27 July – 26 August 2017)
Caroline Rothwell Falling Suspended (after Charles Walter), 2017; ink and acrylic on linen; 248 x 275 cm
Caroline Rothwell Anamorph Crimson 2017, Anamorph burnt 2017 and Anamorph sulphur 2017; canvas, aluminum, Hydrostone, Britannia metal, acrylic paint, metal leaf, nylon; dimensions variable
Caroline Rothwell Composer, 2016; Installation view, Loti Smorgon Sculpture Terrace, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 2016; Photo: Ken Leanford
Exhibition view, Caroline Rothwell, Weather Maker, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery (13 November – 13 December 2014)
Caroline Rothwell Climatic, 2014, Britannia metal, PVC, stainless steel, dimensions variable; Exhibition view, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Dark Heart (1 March – 11 May 2014)
Caroline Rothwell 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)
Caroline Rothwell The Law of Unintended Consequences (Climate Machine II), 2013; Pearl auto-lacquer on Britannia metal; 77.5 x 31.5 x 21 cm
Caroline Rothwell Transmutation, 2010; Bronze; 250 x 72 x 8 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
CAROLINE ROTHWELL
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
Splice, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Ex Situ, Verghis Art (curated by Nina Miall), London
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
Femmage, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
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
Wynne Prize finalist, Art Gallery of New South Wales
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
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
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 South Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia;
Shepparton Art Museum
University of Queensland Art Museum
State Library of Victoria
City of Sydney
Artbank
Lyons Housemuseum
Deutschebank
Ferrier Hodgson
Ministry of Internal Affairs, NZ
Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand
OMI International Arts Center, New York
Auckland City Art Gallery
Auckland University
Chartwell Trust
James Wallace Trust
University of Cambridge, UK
Private Collections worldwide
