NEXUS MODERN ART

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

2007 Musing, Nexus Modern Art, Melbourne
2006, Thierry B. Gallery,Melbourne,
2006 Art Sydney, RHI & Hordern Pavillion, Sydney
2006 Blue Door 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
2002, The Postcard Show, Linden Gallery, Melbourne, Visuals, Treasury Place Gallery, Melbourne
2001, Industry Award and Graduate Exhibition, Switchback Gallery, Gippsland
2000, Emerging Elements, The Samuel Gallery, CUB Malthouse, Melbourne

Education

2006 Certificate IV in Training & Assessment for Teaching, AIET, Melbourne
2002-2004 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting, Victorian College of the Arts
1999-2001 Diploma of Visual Art, Painting, Victorian University, Melbourne
1981-1983 Diploma of Graphic Design, Ecole Supérieure d’Art Moderne, Paris, France

Publications and Interviews

2009 The Age, Diary, 20th May 2009 - SBS radio, Live Melbourne Interview, 29th May 2009 - Port Phillip Leader, Play!, 28th April 2009
2008 SBS radio, Interview Podcast, 28th November 2008 2007 SBS radio, Live Melbourne Interview, 27th November 2007 - Australian Art Review, back page, July-August 2007 - The Guggenheim special magazine, The Age,p.68, 24th June 2007 - PBS radio, Live Melbourne Interview, 17th June 2007 - SBS radio, Live National Interview, 14th June 2007
2006 I love South Melbourne, live online radio interview, 18th Oct 2006 - SBS radio, Live National Interview,28 Sept 2006, Melbourne - Artist waits for rust to settle, The Leader 17th Jan 2006, Melbourne
2005 YEAH, the Age A2, journal, 26 Nov 2005, Melbourne - The World We Live In, World AIDS Day 2005 Art Exhibition Catalogue, Nov 2005 - Australian Art Collector magazine, 69 Smith St – Artist Run Space, July 2005
2004 VCA Graduate Exhibition 2004 Catalogue & Website, Nov 2004, Melbourne - Six9ine, 69 Smith St Newsletter, June 2004, Melbourne
2003 Art for em magazine, VCA, Melbourne
2004-2006 Editor, Six9ine Newsletter, 69 Smith St - Artist Run Initiative,
2000-2004 Curator of Anti Thesis and of Dreamtracing exhibitions, Melbourne

Courses
2009 Master Classes with Artist Godwin Bradbeer - Botanical Illustration with Artist Su Parson 2008 Icon painting with Professor Ursula Betka
2008 Fresco painting with Artist Sarah Tomasetti
1999-2001 Life Painting with Artist Peter Churcher

Carolyn Cardinet’s work is in Private Collections in France, United States, Australia and the United Arab Emirates.