Carolyn Cardinet
Carolyn Cardinet is a graduate of the Ecole Superieure d’Art Moderne in Paris (1981-1983), and the Victorian College of the Arts (2002-2004). She is a highly regarded painter and sculptor.
Carolyn’s work has been described as "a landscape inhabited by the goddess and the muse" and to the viewer it seems certain that just beyond the waterfalls of fabric, and enclosed behind the rich branches of life, there lays a world of the divine.
Carolyn’s abstract paintings open a door to another time and place, where tranquility is paramount. As Carolyn states, her paintings are influenced by, among others, Fortuny, Picabia, Jung and Kiefer. For Carolyn Fortuny’s work showed her that although painting is a process, it can also be like: ‘folding velvet’. Likewise, with Francis Picabia, whose paintings of overlaid images, create a third dimension, and expose the truth and simultaneously the dream.
Carolyns images travel through time, one can recognize them as being ageless and at the same time very contemporary. It is about where we come from and where we are now.
Exhibitions include
2000, Emerging Elements, The Samuel Gallery, CUB Malthouse, Melbourne
2001, Industry Award and Graduate Exhibition, Switchback Gallery, Gippsland
2002, The Postcard Show, Linden Gallery, Melbourne, Visuals, Treasury Place Gallery, Melbourne
2003, Traces, Horti Hall Gallery, Melbourne
2003 Proud 02, VCA Gallery, Melbourne
2003 Roses and Thorns, Amnesty International Australia, CoFA, Sydney
2003 Wrapture, 69 Smith Street Gallery, Melbourne
2006, Thierry B. Gallery,Melbourne,
2006 Art Sydney, RHI & Hordern Pavillion, Sydney
2006 Blue Door Gallery, Melbourne
2007 Musing, Nexus Modern Art, Melbourne
Collections- Private collections in France & Australia
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