Biography
Caroline’s practice centres on the body in states of vulnerability and uncertainty, exploring tensions between physical presence and fragility. Working across painting and sculpture, her approach is one of speculative making, grounded in experimentation with materials and the expressive potential of process. She currently employs distemper-impregnated paper that is waxed, painted, and stitched; materials that enable her to explore surface, skin, and structure in ways that echo the body’s physical and emotional landscape.
She considers how the body carries traces of experience endurance, resilience, and transformation. This reflects an ongoing fascination with both the human form and the history of scientific inquiry. Her work often develops from drawings made in museum medical collections.
After gaining a BA in Theatre Design, she established a career in museum exhibition design, working at the British Museum she designed the Egyptian Funerary Galleries, the Enlightenment Gallery, and numerous temporary exhibitions. She later became Head of Design at the Natural History Museum before returning to study, graduating with distinction from an MA in Fine Art Painting at Camberwell College of Arts, UAL in 2020.