Ms Caroline Rothwell Member , Art Gallery of NSW Trust
Initial date of appointment: 1 January 2022
Expiry of current term: 31 December 2024
Caroline Rothwell is an artist living on Gadigal Country in Sydney. Her multi-disciplinary practice often explores the intersection of art and science and the effects of human interaction with nature throughout history. Rothwell has been included in major biennales and exhibitions including 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 & Anthropology, Cambridge University (2016); 2014 Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia; Museum of Economic Botany, Adelaide (2014). She has undertaken international residencies at Cambridge University Museums (2015) and OMI International Arts Centre, New York (2014). Her work is held in major collections including National Gallery of Australia; Cambridge University, UK; and Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand. She has been awarded sculpture commissions at Museum of Contemporary Art Australia’s Loti Smorgon Sculpture Terrace (2016); The Economist Plaza, London (2009) for Contemporary Art Society. In 2021 she won the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize. She previously lectured in Fine Art at Auckland University and served on the board of Artspace, Sydney.