2008 Artspace Artist Multiple: Caroline Rothwell

The 2008 Artspace Artist Multiple has been produced and developed by Sydney-based artist Caroline Rothwell, whose exhibition Blowback was one of the highlights of Artspace’s 2008 program. Available in a limited edition of 26, Crop Seed (poppy) is a nickel-plated bronze cast object based on the image of a poppy seed viewed under a microscope.

Caroline Rothwell’s work often explores scenarios from the natural world as a way of investigating human response to our surroundings. Crop Seed (poppy) typically meshes aesthetic seduction with an unruly, noxious energy. The seed form is beautiful, but given its character as an industrial drug crop also toxic. It also makes for an ideal subject to realise in the form of a multiple, replicating itself as it does and becoming a viral entity as it travels. Realised through industrial processes and finishes but on an intimate, almost personal scale, Crop Seed (poppy) is akin to a hand-held toy (a knucklebone for example), that in multiple form can be arranged or stacked into any number of sculptural configurations.

Caroline Rothwell has exhibited widely internationally and has had numerous commissions to complete artworks for a range of projects, institutions and councils. Recent and current projects include a commission for Deutsche Bank in Sydney, solo exhibitions at Artspace and Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, a series of permanent steel works for Auckland City and a forthcoming series of bronze sculptures for The Economist Plaza, London through The Contemporary Arts Society. Rothwell is taking part in the forthcoming group exhibition We are unsuitable for framing at Te Papa Tongarewa, the Museum of New Zealand in Wellington and has solo exhibitions forthcoming in 2009 at GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney, and Maddox Arts, London.

Caroline Rothwell is represented in Australia by GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney and Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne. The Artist and Artspace gratefully acknowledge their support for the project.

The Artspace Artist Multiple program was launched in 2007 with Shaun Gladwell’s Guide to Recent Architecture: Fountains (excerpt). Under this program one exhibiting artist each year produces and donates a limited edition work to raise funds for Artspace programs.

Caroline Rothwell Crop Seed (poppy) 2008
Nickel-plated bronze, 60 x 108 x 115mm
Edition of 26 + 2 artist proofs
Presented with a signed certificate
Price $550 (incl. GST)

Courtesy the artist


For more informtaion please contact:

Tracy Burgess

Gallery & Studio Administrator

+612 9356 0555 or tracyb@artspace.org.au