Professional Experience:
Ceramic and Glass Artist
Roles Ceramic and glass figurative sculptures Functional ware range Studio Manager Teaching Ceramics to adults and children Kiln Operator Curate student Displays
Main Qualifications
2005 Certificate IV in Small Business Management Mission Australia - (NEIS) WA
2002 Bachelor of Arts (Art) Clay, Glass, Jewellery and 3D Design Anthropology (Women in the World) 1 Unit Curtin University Perth WA
Exhibitions:
2021 June City of Belmont Art Awards
The Glasshouse, Belmont Perth WA
2021 May City of Gosnells Community Art Award The Agonis, Gosnells Perth WA
2020 Oct WunderGym Online Exhibition "Cleaning Water"
School House Studios, Collingwood Melbourne
2020 Oct WunderGym Online Exhibition "The Expanded Self" with Yvette Coppersmith
School House Studios, Collingwood Melbourne
2020 Aug WunderGym Online Exhibition "A Handful of Hen's Teeth" with Tai Snaith
School House Studios, Collingwood Melbourne
2020 July WunderGym Online Exhibition 2 "Olfactory Art" with Catherine Bell School House Studios, Collingwood Melbourne
2020 May Wundergym Mask for Mask with The Huxleys Online Exhibition Collingwood Victoria
2020 May - June Wyndham Art Prize Exhibition (finalist) Wyndham Art Gallery, Werribee Victoria
2019 November PrimoRED Exhibition C&H Gallery, Hoppers Crossing, Victoria
2019 April Wyndham Art Prize Exhibition (finalist) Wyndham Art Gallery, Werribee Victoria
2018 July - August Association of Sculptors of Victoria Annual and Awards Exhibition (selected) Bourke Place, Melbourne, Victoria
2018 March - June Wyndham Art Prize Exhibition (finalist) Wyndham Art Gallery, Werribee Victoria
2018 March 'Vessel' Brunswick St Gallery, Fitzroy Victoria
2017 December RED/REDUX Flaunt RED Public Art Event, Werribee Victoria
2017 August The Australian Ceramics Association Open Studios Event, Point Cook, Victoria
2017 May/June/July 'The Bead Project' Exhibition Community Art Project, Saltwater Community Centre, Point Cook , Vic
2016 August The Australian Ceramics Association Open Studios Event, Point Cook, Victoria
2016 Aug-Sept 'Throw Up Your Art' Exhibition Colour Box Studio, VU Metro West, Footscray
2015 Nov 'Throw Up Your Art' Exhibition
Colour Box Studio, Docklands Melbourne
2015 Sept-Oct 'As/If' Exhibition When and Now Women's Art Register Queen Victoria Women's Centre Gallery, Lonsdale St, Melbourne
2015 August The Australian Ceramics Association
Open Studios Event, Point Cook, Victoria
2015 March Wyndham Art Prize Exhibition (finalist) Wyndham Art Gallery, Werribee, Victoria
2014 April Art in Public Places Hobsons Bay, Melbourne, Victoria
2014 April 'Body/Sex' Exhibition (selected) Brunswick St Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria
2014 March 'Private Pantheon' (Solo Show) Brunswick St Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria
2012 July -Sept 'Completely Corsetless' (Featured Artist)
Metamorphosis Art Gallery, Willetton WA
Collections/Commissions:
2012 "No More, No More" Pitfired Earthenware Paperclay sulpture Jana Vodesil-Baruffi, Metamorphosis Art Gallery, WA
2012 "Flight in Magenta" mixed media sculpture, paperclay, silver Anita Littlewood, Perth, WA
2011 "Stellar and Maris" Pit fired clay sculptures Pyre Born Women Jennie Bolton, Cairns, Qld
2011 "Wrath" Earthenware Paperclay sculpture Jana Vodesil-Baruffi, Metamorphosis Art Gallery, WA
Memberships and Groups
The Australian Ceramics Association
Women's Art Register
Liddelow Homestead
After completing her Art degree working in clay, glass and jewellery at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia, Carolyn began exhibiting her figurative sculptures in local galleries before moving to Melbourne in 2013. There her work has been shown at various galleries including as a finalist several times at Wyndham Art Prize, Art in Public Places and Queen Victoria Women's Centre Gallery. Her female figures appear to shapeshift into to birds, their stories drawn from Carolyn's own life experiences and influenced by music and her collection of myths, fairytales, old wives tales and contemporary women's voices.