• Installation view of Caroline Rothwell, Nervous System, Ames Yavuz, Sydney, 2024. Photographed by Felipe Olivares Barreto.
  • Caroline Rothwell, System (trees), 2024, polished bronze, lacquer, 50 x 58 x 14 cm, edition of 3 + 2AP
  • 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.
  • Caroline Rothwell, Curiosity with nest, 2023, canvas, hydrostone, steel, paint, mixed media, bird’s nest, glass dome, 26.5 x 14.5 x 14.5 cm
  • Caroline Rothwell,Adam and Eve (after Dürer), 2024, structural nylon, composite materials, paint and mixed media, 132 x 92 x 4 cm
  • 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.
  • Caroline Rothwell, Portal, 2024, polished bronze, lacquer, 61 x 31 x 35 cm, edition of 3 + 1AP
  • Caroline Rothwell, Threshold, 2024, structural nylon, composite materials, paint, resin, 198 x 71cm x 5 cm
  • Installation view of Caroline Rothwell, Nervous System, Ames Yavuz, Sydney, 2024. Photographed by Felipe Olivares Barreto.
  • Caroline Rothwell, Exhale (sulphuric cloud for climate engineering), 2024, structural nylon, particles of sulphur from Whakaari/White Island, NZ, particles of bushfire carbon, composite materials, paint, stabilisers, sealers, 71.5 x 97 x 5 cm
  • Caroline Rothwell, Exhale (cloud brightening for climate engineering), 2024, structural nylon, particles of bushfire carbon, stabilisers, paint, metal foil, composite materials, sealers, 71.5 x 97 x 5 cm
  • Caroline Rothwell, Exhale (blood red), 2024, structural nylon, composite materials, paint, particles of bushfire carbon, stabilisers, sealers
  • Caroline Rothwell, Exhale (carbon cloud), 2024, structural nylon, composite materials, particles of bushfire carbon, stabilisers, paint, sealers, 71.5 x 97 x 5cm
  • Caroline Rothwell, Exhale (Blue), 2024, structural nylon, composite materials, paint, particles of bushfire carbon, stabilisers, sealers, 71.5 x 97 x 5 cm.jpg
  • Installation view of Caroline Rothwell, Transmission (cyme alternate), 2024, structural nylon, composite materials, paint, metal leaf, sealers, 132 x 92 x 4 cm
  • Caroline Rothwell, Transmission (cyme alternate), 2024, structural nylon, composite materials, paint, metal leaf, sealers, 132 x 92 x 4 cm
  • Caroline Rothwell, Transmission (helicoid cyme), 2024, structural nylon, composite materials, paint, metal leaf, sealers, 132 x 92 x 4 cm
  • Caroline Rothwell, Museum, 2024, canvas, metal armature, hydrostone, composite material, paint, 154 x 42 x 42 cm
  • Caroline Rothwell, Thyrus (alternate), 2024, found hospital crutch, canvas, alumunium armature, composite materials, paint, resin, approx 178 x 97 x 178 x 20 cm (in 2 parts)
  • Caroline Rothwell, Midnight, 2024, canvas, metal armature, composite materials, copper, glass, 55 x 42 x 25 cm, suspended
  • Caroline Rothwell, Tendril, 2024, canvas, metal armature, composite materials, copper, glass, 50 x 43 x 33 cm, suspended
  • Caroline Rothwell, Botanical (blue), 2024, structural nylon, composite materials, paint, metal leaf, 25 x 20 cm
  • Caroline Rothwell, Botanical (umbel), 2024, structural nylon, composite materials, paint, metal leaf, 25 x 20 cm
  • Caroline Rothwell, Botanical (cyme bruise), 2024, structural nylon, composite materials, paint, metal leaf, 25 x 20 cm
  • Caroline Rothwell, Botanica (head), 2024, structural nylon, composite materials, paint, metal leaf, 25 x 20 cm
  • Caroline Rothwell, Botanical (cyme), 2024, structural nylon, composite materials, paint, metal leaf, 25 x 20 cm
  • Caroline Rothwell, Botanical (maybe), 2024, structural nylon, composite materials, paint, metal leaf, 25 x 20 cm
  • Caroline Rothwell, Curiosity with Bundanon Bunya, 2023, canvas, hydrostone, steel, paint, copper, Bunya leaf, mixed media, glass dome, 26.5 x 14.5 x 14.5 cm
EXHIBITION

Caroline Rothwell

Nervous System

15 November – 18 December 2024

Ames Yavuz is thrilled to announce Nervous System, Caroline Rothwell’s solo exhibition at Ames Yavuz Sydney.

Nervous System is inspired by the complex and interconnected circulatory systems that underpin biodiversity, plant architecture, weather cycles and human infrastructures. Using her unique processes, these new works evoke a strange chemistry through slumping and stitched forms in metallic and carbon finishes. Incorporating cast bronze sculptures, assemblages, animation and relief paintings, Nervous System reveals the delicate balance of ecosystems.

Through references to water flow, clouds, pipes and data, Rothwell urges us to consider the connections between the colossal systems that regulate our Earth and the intricate structures and webs that connect all living beings, challenging our human centred ways.