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In this exhibition, Carolyn V. Watson delves into the complex interplay between risk and opportunity through a meticulously curated series of tactile forms and objects. Moving beyond traditional visual appreciation, Watson’s work now invites physical interaction, fostering a profound, unspoken dialogue between the viewer and the artwork.
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Today our Year 12 Visual Art classes welcomed multi-award-winning artist Carolyn V Watson. During this VIP guest-led workshop, students learned to transform wire and repurposed materials of little or no significant value, into something of greater worth or artistic enjoyment. They also experimented with melted beeswax to see how it strengthens and stiffens artwork elements. Check out Carolyn’s interesting and unusual assortment of artworks and creative materials.
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A soft opening preview for the body of work created to be shown in Tasmania’s Penny Contemporary gallery later this year. Continuing with CVW’s signature experimental assemblages addressing elements of process and ritual, this pop-up preview is an opportunity to see the works before they are taken to Hobart for the artist’s solo exhibition, The comfort of shared uncertainty.
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New article about Passing Through new exhibition at Bundaberg regional Art Gallery
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Building on a bedrock of authentic objects, her final pieces appear at once familiar but also strange and other-worldly.
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Carolyn V Watson’s new body of work, let’s play pretend, extends her ongoing enquiry into how one might ‘activate the audience’s curiosity by inverting the familiar and thereby offer new readings of the known’. Beyond a childhood game connotation, the exhibition’s title embodies a deeper signification.
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The injunction to 'play pretend,' in the title of Carolyn V Watson's upcoming show with Anthea Polson Art, connotes both childlike innocence and something more ambivalent, even troubling. Across sculptures and panel paintings, Watson stages the shocking vulnerability - and the alienating freshness - of a world made strange to itself through the artist's imaginative intervention into it.
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Stay out of the forest received a Highly Commended acknowledgment at the inaugural Lethbridge Landscape Prize
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National sculpture exhibition - Only artist to have two works selected - 1. Newlands 2. Writhe
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Carolyn V Watson creates elliptical works that elude recognition. Our eyes search for form in fragments, familiarity in the foreign, yet the Brisbane-based artist ensures that we can never quite settle on a single interpretation. Artist Profile spoke to Watson ahead of her newest exhibition 'tall tales and true'.
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The evidence of process and the respect for the handmade is an integral component in all of Carolyn’s works. One can feel the maker’s energy in them as they embody life, time and decisions made. The sense of anthropomorphic intent and adaptation evident in the sculptures also occurs in her paintings on wood panels
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In my artistic practice at the moment, I am facilitating a large number of high school sculpture workshops, and upcoming professional development workshops for art teachers at Logan Art Gallery. I am also a sculpture tutor at the BIA and my semester class is working toward their mid year exhibition. I am involved in a number of upcoming exhibitions –
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Life presents us with many realities, some of which we might struggle to reconcile. There are experiences we would rather not endure and situations we would prefer to avoid.