Caroline Austin is an Artist, Curator and Community Engagement Specialist.  Her interdisciplinary participative work and practices speaks to emphasis upon innovative multi-discipline collaborations, programming, site-specific installations, public art and socially engaged practices.  

She uses mediums ranging from installations and public sculpture at the School of Visual Arts’ Visual and Critical Studies, New York; International Red Cross; United Nations; Doh Eain, Myanmar and BARI Festival, Brisbane, to exhibitions and various publications such as SINTEZO Magazine.  

Her work has taken place in many of the largest crises across Asia Pacific for organisations such as the International Red Cross and United Nations. These roles allowed her to explore how creative practice, creativity and design can be used in community settings to encourage cognitive shifts in audiences that support systems change.  Working with collaborators at the Queens University, Kingston, Queensland University of Technology and University of New England, she is focused on generation of new ideas, with the aim of addressing the challenges posed by complex, disruptive events.

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Exhibitions

2024, Stockroom Exhibition, Side Gallery, Australia

2023, Echo, Side Gallery, Australia

2023, UnConnected Yet, Lorne, Australia

2022, Land Street Gallery, Exhibition, and Residency 

2022, Block Exhibition, Vacant Assembly 

2022, Burn, Side Gallery

2021, Landing, Side Gallery

2020, Benny, NSW Art Gallery, performance artwork on façade 

2019, Artist in Residence, Doh Eain, Myanmar 

2019, BAD Festival Brisbane, Brisbane

2018, Strategies for the Future, c3 contemporary art space, Melbourne

2018, Finalist, BAM Art Prize, Thomgallery, Byron Bay 

2018, 2018 Toowoomba Biennial Emerging Artist Award & Exhibition 

2018, Dear climate, make a wish for me, Chelsea Piers, New York

2018, Tracking twenty-third street, School of Visual Arts Residency, New York

2017, Love for Home, Coxs Bazar, Bangladesh

2016, Absence ≡ Presence, QUT Art Gallery, Kelvin Grove Creative Precinct

2015, Modes of Absence, Presence, Hotel Orient, Brisbane  

Exhibitions Curated

2024, Articulation: Language, Object Space, Ipswich Art Gallery, Australia 

2022, Light Industrial, The Woolstores Project

2020, Sideways (After 43 Minutes), Side Gallery.

2020, 43 Minutes, Side Gallery

2018, Between the inside and the outside, The Woolstores Project

2017, Track and Trace, The Woolstores Project

2016, Forecasting, BARI Festival

2016, Movement in Life, Anywhere Festival, Edge, Cultural Centre, South Bank

Fellowships / Residencies

School of Visual Arts Residency, New York

Bibliography — Books, Chapters, and Press

Light Industrial,  Woolstore Exhibition, 2019 (Catalogue)

2018 Toowoomba Biennial Emerging Artist Award & Exhibition catalogue

Between the Inside and Outside,  Woolstore Exhibition, 2018 (Catalogue)

Track and Trace,  Woolstore Exhibition, 2017 (Catalogue) 

Deans Book, 2016, Outstanding Projects, Creative Industries

Rees, J. 2016. Contemporary Art Awards: Finalist Exhibition 2015. 23 January-23 June 2016, Contemporary Art Awards, Brisbane, Queensland

Art Almanac, Contemporary Art Awards 2015, February 2016, pg 127

Education

2016, Masters of Fine Arts (Practice Led Research), Queensland University of Technology

2015, Graduate Certificate in Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology

2009, Masters of Public and International Law, University of Melbourne

1999, Bachelor of Laws and Business Queensland University of Technology