Biography

Carolyn V. Watson is a multi-award winning artist whose work has been exhibited in solo and group shows throughout Australia.

Carolyn anchors her practice in a place between the natural and the unknown. Building on a bedrock of authentic objects, her works appear at once familiar but also strange and other-worldly.

Watson shifts between two and three-dimensional modes while working, resulting in bodies of worth with distinct rhythms that repeat, echo and mimic reference points throughout.

Highly Commended in the inaugural 2021 Lethbridge Landscape Prize and a dual finalist in the 2020 Tom Bass Prize, she has won multiple awards at the Brisbane Sculpture Festival and Brisbane Rotary Art Spectacular.

Carolyn's work is held in public and private collections in Australia and internationally.

Exhibitions
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Group Shows
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Awards
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REsidencies
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Collections
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2022
Melbourne, VIC
Public
2022
Melbourne
Private
Workshops
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2024
St Bridgidine College
Yr 10 Students
Art as Objects – Presentation, PowerPoint and sculptural technique demonstrations 2x 1hr Yr. 10 classes
2024
Zart Summer School 2024
Melbourne and Victorian - Educators and teachers
Improbable botany (accessible and adaptable techniques for small sculpture)
2023
Hills International College
Year 11 Students
IA1 Art As Knowledge workshop Techniques and approaches to process using through objects and images
2023
St Johns Anglican College
Year 9 students
Artist Presentation – Hybrid construction - Sculpture technique workshop Guest Artist 2023 - 2025
2023
PAEA (Peninsula Art Educators Association) _ Carins REFUEL PD
Arts educators and teachers
Improbable botany (accessible and adaptable techniques for small sculpture)
2023
All Saints Anglican School
Yr 6 students
Guest Artist – Bird Sculpture and Construction techniques Workshop 4 x 1hr classes Yr. 6 Students
2022
St Paul’s School
Yr 11 Students
IA1 Art As Knowledge workshop Techniques and approaches to process using through objects and images. Guest Artist 2022- 2024
2022
Moreton Bay College
Yr 10 Students
Guest Artist Presentation - Sculpture technique workshops - Artist Talk and Hybrid creature sculpture self portraits Guest Artist 2022 - 2025
2022
Sandgate State District High School
Yr 10 Students
Assemblage and Appropriation Sculpture techniques and 2D explorations workshop
2022
Beaudesert State High School
Grade 10, 11 and 12
Guest Artist - Two-day Sculpture Technique workshops. Objects, assemblages, and forms- Exploration through repetition
2022
QAATA Conference 2022
Queensland Educators and teachers
2022 QAATA conference Improbable botany (accessible and adaptable techniques for small sculpture)
2022
Clairvaux Mackillop College
Grade 7 and 8 Art Elective Students
Animal Hybrids: Sculpture techniques and surface explorations workshop Guest Arist 2021 - 2023
2022
Brisbane Girls Grammar
Guest Artist – Hybrid Creatures - Introduction to sculpture construction techniques Sculpture workshop for BBGS Grade 8 art students
2022
Wavell Sate High School
Yr 11 and 12
Guest Artist - Improbable Botany : Images and assemblages Thinking through repetition sculpture workshop -
2021
Brisbane Boys Grammar
Yr 11 Students
Brisbane Grammar School - Guest Artist in residence- Moogerah Immersion - 2day Artist workshop
2021
Calamvale Community College
Year 11 students
Improbable Botany workshop Techniques and approaches to Sculpture through repetition Guest Artist 2021 - 2024
2020
St Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace
Yr 11 Students
Guest Artist Grade 11- 2D /3D Master workshop Known/Unknown: an interdisciplinary approach to the known & unknown 2-day workshop
2020
Calvary Christian College
Yr 10 students
Guest Artist – Artist talk & sculpture /mixed media workshops
2020
QACI - Queensland Academies Creative Industries Campus
Yr 12 Students
Visual Arts Big Day In - 2020 and 2021 “Hanging hybrids and improbable botany – sculpture through repetition” Workshop presentation, demonstration and instruction of sculptural techniques
2019
Marymount College, Burleigh Waters
Year 11 students - Semester 4 - Years conducted 2019 to 2024
IA1 Excursion to Burleigh Heads - Artist lead workshop responding to the information and objects gathered
2019
Iona College, Brisbane
Year 8 Students
The lost thing - Sculpture construction with found objects - 2 x 120min workshops
2019
Ipswich Grammar School, Ipswich
Year 10 - All Boys
2D Introduction to breaking down and replicating an image with a variety of media and surfaces - using the self-portrait as the starting point 3D - Quick assemblage
2019
St. Peters Claver Collage, Brisbane
Year 10 students
Artist Talk, Introduction to accessible sculpture assemblage techniques - Hybrid Sculpture workshop 2018 to 2020
2019
Anglican Church Grammar School
Yr 10 and11 students
Guest Artist/ Artist Residency at Anglican Church Grammar School - one week
2018
Kenmore State High school
Yr 10 Students
Hybrid sculpture and assemblage technique workshops. Guest Artist 2018-2024
2018
Corinda State High School
Yr 7 , 9 and 10 - Excellence in Art Students
Arist talk and The abstracted object - 3D sculpture workshop / Artist in Residence – Puzzle Paintings and Hybrid sculpture workshops Materials and techniques- for Year 9 – Visual Art Excellence students Guest Artist 2018 -2024
2018
Sheldon College
Artist Talk and Workshop - Introduction of accessible sculpture techniques, Exploraration of surface treatments, Discussions about composition, installation and audience interaction. Guest Artist 2018 - 2024
2016
Villanova College
Yr 11 and Year 12 All boys
Artist Talk - Introduction to accessible sculpture and assemblage. Exploration of surface treatments. Approaches to reinterpreting the ordinary -drawing and surface choice. Guest Artist 2016 to 2018
2014
Ferny Grove State High School
Year 10 students
Artist Talk - Sculpture workshop - Hybrid Creature - Improbable Botany - Aviation Mutation - All three workshops focus on construction a sculpture base upon the students owns research - Key focus - adaptability Guest Artist - 2014 -2024
Tutorship
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2019
Brisbane Institute of Art 2014 to 2019
2D to 3D — Drawing to new forms of Sculpture
2012
Brisbane Institute of Art 2012 -2013
Contemporary Watercolour & Mixed Media
Education
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1998
Queensland College of Art Griffith University
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)

Carolyn
V. Watson