• Installation view of Caroline Rothwell, Nervous System, Ames Yavuz, Sydney, 2024. Photographed by Felipe Olivares Barreto.
  • Installation view of Caroline Rothwell, Nervous System, Ames Yavuz, Sydney, 2024. Photographed by Felipe Olivares Barreto.
  • Installation view of Caroline Rothwell, Nervous System, Ames Yavuz, Sydney, 2024. Photographed by Felipe Olivares Barreto.
  • Installation view of Caroline Rothwell, Nervous System, Ames Yavuz, Sydney, 2024. Photographed by Felipe Olivares Barreto.
  • Installation view of Caroline Rothwell, Nervous System, Ames Yavuz, Sydney, 2024. Photographed by Felipe Olivares Barreto.
  • Installation of Caroline Rothwell’s works in ‘Ross & Rothwell: In The Same Boat’ at Ngununggula. Photographed by Document Photography. Courtesy of the artists and Ngununggula.
  • Installation of Caroline Rothwell’s works in ‘Ross & Rothwell: In The Same Boat’ at Ngununggula. Photographed by Document Photography. Courtesy of the artists and Ngununggula.
  • Installation of Caroline Rothwell’s works in ‘Ross & Rothwell: In The Same Boat’ at Ngununggula. Photographed by Document Photography. Courtesy of the artists and Ngununggula.
  • Caroline Rothwell, Ripple Effect, with Flame robin, 2023, carbon black (Currowan megafire), canvas, gypsum cement, epoxy resin, metal 148 x 81 x 10 cm
  • Caroline Rothwell, Glasshouse, 2020, Ink, gold, copper, vinyl paint on primed stretched Belgium linen, 200 x 160 cm
  • Caroline Rothwell, Corpus 2, 2020, ink, wild fire + industrial emission, acrylic binder medium, chrome, acrylic paint on primed stretched Belgium linen, 100 x 96 cm
  • Caroline Rothwell, Corpus 4, 2020, ink, wild fire + industrial emission, acrylic binder medium, chrome, acrylic paint on primed stretched Belgium linen, 100 x 96 cm
  • Caroline Rothwell, Cartouche corpus, 2020, canvas, hydrostone, paint, epoxy glass, 82 x 70 x 25 cm
  • Caroline Rothwell, Corpus at Yavuz Gallery, 2021. Courtesy of the artist and Ames Yavuz
  • Caroline Rothwell, Corpus at Yavuz Gallery, 2021. Courtesy of the artist and Ames Yavuz
  • Caroline Rothwell, Industrial Botanical, 2020, canvas, hydrostone, paint, epoxy glass, stainless steel fittings, 100 x 52 x 36 cm
  • Caroline Rothwell, Corpus at Yavuz Gallery, 2021. Courtesy of the artist and Ames Yavuz
  • Caroline Rothwell, Blue chair with plant, 2021, canvas, hydrostone, paint, epoxy glass, stainless steel fittings, Chair: 103 x 45 x 10 cm; Flower: 76 cm
  • Caroline Rothwell, Abject chair, 2021, canvas, hydrostone, paint, epoxy glass, stainless steel fittings, 37 x 97 x 40 cm
  • Caroline Rothwell, Slumped chair, 2021, canvas, hydrostone, paint, epoxy glass, stainless steel fittings, 42 x 89 x 35 cm
  • Caroline Rothwell, Paradise Bird with Windometer, 2020, canvas, hydrostone, paint, epoxy glass, mixed media on chair, dimensions variable
  • Caroline Rothwell, Corpus at Yavuz Gallery, 2021. Courtesy of the artist and Ames Yavuz
  • Caroline Rothwell, Telescoping, 2018, Ink and copper on primed stretched Belgium linen (diptych), 205 x 155 cm (each panel)
  • Caroline Rothwell, Carbon Emission 2, 2020, edition of 8+AP, digital animation, 2'
  • Caroline Rothwell, Capitulum, 2019, acrylic, hydro gel, canvas, 100 x 63 x 25 cm
  • Caroline Rothwell, Umbel, 2019, canvas, steel, hydrostone, epoxy resin, acrylic paint, brass, copper, 74 x 49 x 20 cm
  • Caroline Rothwell, Inflorescence, 2019 hydrostone, aluminium, canvas, epoxy glass, PVC, stainless steel, 80 x 36 x 30cm
  • Caroline Rothwell, Cartouche 2, 2019, ink, chrome foil, vinyl paint on primed Belgium linen, 230 x 193 cm
  • Caroline Rothwell, Island, 2018, ink, 23 carat gold, vinyl paint on primed Belgium linen, 203 x 320 cm
  • Caroline Rothwell, Cartouche, 2018, copper, ink, acrylic on primed Belgium linen, 200 x 193 cm
  • Caroline Rothwell, Sun tongue, 2018, Hydrostone, canvas, thread, epoxy glass, vinyl paint, stainless steel, 71 x 40 x 15 cm
  • Caroline Rothwell, Biomorph (stabile), 2018, copper, Hydrostone, canvas, thread, epoxy glass, vinyl paint, stainless steel, wood, 160 x 130 x 45 cm
ARTIST

Caroline Rothwell

Caroline Rothwell (b. 1967, UK/Australia) is a multidisciplinary artist with a research driven practice looking to the intersection of art, science and nature. She works across two and three dimensional media in the expanded disciplines of sculpture and installation and has an exhibiting history across national and international museums, biennales and art fairs. Rothwell looks to archive, history, data and site to consider multi-species interconnection, environmental care, technology and the future.

Rothwell has a BA from University of the Arts London, UK and MFA in sculpture from Hunter College, City University of NewYork, USA and University of Auckland, New Zealand. She currently lives in Sydney, Australia.

Rothwell’s work has been widely exhibited, including in Ross & Rothwell: in the same boat (2024), Ngununggula, Southern Highlands Regional Gallery; The National 2021: New Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia; Know My Name: Australia Women Artists 1900 to Now, National Gallery of Australia (2021); Antipodes: Cut Apart, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge University (2016); Fragil, Cuena Biennale, Ecuador (2016); and Dark Heart, 2014 Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia.

Rothwell was awarded the Loti Smorgon Sculpture Terrace commission at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia in 2016 and the Economist Plaza, London commission for Contemporary Art Society, London in 2009. In 2020, she collaborated with Google Creative Lab to create Infinite Herbarium, a participatory ML Web App and multi-channel video series which has shown at Sydney Botanical Gardens, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia, and at Artificial Evolution & Sustainable Futures, Art Taipei, Taiwan. In 2024, Rothwell was a Creative Australia resident artist at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris and in 2025 she will show alongside Patricia Piccinini at Yarrila Arts and Museum, NSW.

Rothwell’s work is held in numerous collections in Australia and internationally, including the National Gallery of Australia; Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia); Art Gallery of South Australia; Shepparton Art Museum (Australia); University of Queensland Art Museum (Australia); State Library of Victoria (Australia); City of Sydney (Australia); Artbank (Australia); Lyon Housemuseum (Australia); Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa; OMI International Arts Center (USA); Auckland Art Gallery (New Zealand); University of Auckland (New Zealand); and the University of Cambridge (UK).

Exhibitions