• 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 whose practice spans over 20 years. The daughter of an industrial chemist, Rothwell’s practice investigates how ideas and beliefs have shaped our contemporary world. Her work explores systems of human interaction relating to time, nature, history, and science.

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

Rothwell’s recent institutional exhibitions include The National 2021: New Australian Art, a major biennial survey exhibition presented across the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Carriageworks, and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (March 2021); Horizon, a solo exhibition at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre (July 2021); and Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now at the National Gallery of Australia (July 2021).

Other curated projects include: Femmage, Art Gallery of South Australia (2019); The Lady and the Unicorn: collection bestiary, Art Gallery of New South Wales (2018); Frágil, XIII Biennale of Cuenca, Ecuador (2016); Antipodes: cut apart, Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK (2016); Another Green World, Western Plains Cultural Centre (2017); Inspiracje, Trafo Centre for Contemporary Art, Poland (2017); Habit, Temple Contemporary, Philadelphia (2015), Dark Heart: 2014 Biennial of Australian Art at Art Gallery of South Australia; Urpflanze Street Plants, Museum of Economic Botany (2014).

As well as exhibiting extensively in solo and group exhibitions across Australia, New Zealand and the UK, Rothwell has undertaken public commissions at The Economist Plaza, London (for the Contemporary Art Society), UK; City of Canada Bay Council, Sydney, Australia; City of Sydney, Australia; Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, New Zealand; as well as being awarded the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia’s Loti Smorgon Sculpture Terrace Commission for her work Composer in 2016.

Her 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); Lyons 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).