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Caroline Walls
Painting
b. 1984, Auckland, New Zealand
Lives and works in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Caroline Walls is a Melbourne-based visual artist whose practice spans painting, drawing, and sculpture. Walls' work explores the fluidity of the female form, themes of intimacy, human connection, and the layered complexities of womanhood—often navigating a space between figuration and abstraction. With a background in fashion art direction in London and New York, Walls brings a distinctive eye for composition and color to her visual language.
Walls has presented eight solo exhibitions in recent years, including Touching From A Distance and Mother Lover, and her work is held in private collections around the world. Walls’ practice has been widely recognized in publications Vogue Living, Architectural Digest, and Vogue.
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STATEMENT
"My practice centres on the female experience—its intimacy, strength, and emotional depth. Working primarily in oil on linen, I use a limited palette and soft layering techniques to create images that feel both vulnerable and grounded. The figure and fabric often blur into one another, becoming symbols of connection, memory, and transformation. I’m drawn to the spaces between bodies—both physical and emotional—and to the quiet power held in those liminal moments. Each work is an attempt to hold presence and absence at once, inviting reflection on what is seen, felt, and left unsaid.
Drapery recurs through my work, both with paintings in which figures gently embrace and in more ambiguous compositions where gathered pools of flowing fabric gesture to rich emotional worlds even in the body’s absence. The fabric takes on a life of its own, embodying the presence, movement and emotion of the figure. Dancing between the seen and unseen, the tangible and symbolic, these elements act as both literal and metaphorical veils, representing the layers of experience and revelation that defines womanhood and human connection."
EDUCATION
2014 — 2015, Graduate Certificate of Visual Arts
Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), Melbourne
2003 — 2006, Bachelor of Visual Communication & Design (Honours)
Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024, Touching From A Distance, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
2023, A Thread To Find, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
2022, Mother Lover, Jerico Contemporary, Sydney
2020, Resemblance, Jerico Contemporary, Sydney
2018, Darker Places, Forty Five Downstairs, Melbourne
2017, Maybe She, Saint Cloche Gallery, Sydney
2017, Another Thought, Modern Times, Melbourne
2015, The Women, Gallerysmith Project Space, Melbourne
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024, Painting Now, Michael Reid Gallery, Sydney
2024, Embraced - A Lived Experience, Rhodes Contemporary, London UK
2024, Rick Amor Drawing Awards, McClelland Gallery, Victoria
2024, Queer Objectification, ANZ Private Gallery, Melbourne
2024, Melbourne Art Fair with James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
2023, Summer New, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
2022, National Emerging Art Prize (ACB Selects), Sydney
2022, A Gentle Unwinding, Modern Times, Melbourne
2021, Summer Show, Rhodes Contemporary, London UK
2020, Chromatic Retreat, Modern Times, Melbourne
2020, Sydney Contemporary with Jerico Contemporary, Sydney
2020, Intimacy, Jerico Contemporary, Sydney
2019, Friends and Family, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2019, Rituals, Modern Times, Melbourne
2019, Art & Artefact, The Design Files, Melbourne
2017, Jetsetter, Saint Cloche, Melbourne
PRIZES/RESIDENCIES
2025, Omnia Art Prize, St Kevins, Finalist
2024, Rick Amor Drawing Award, McClelland Gallery, Finalist
2023, Assembly Label Artist In Residence, Melbourne
2022 National Emerging Art Prize, ‘ACB Selects List’
2021, Omnia Art Prize, Finalist
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Vogue Living, Architectural Digest, The Design Files, Art Guide Australia, Vogue, Elle, Harpers Bazaar, Cereal Magazine, Russh, Real Living, Jane, Financial Review, Sunday Life, Inside Out, Belle, Yatzer, It’s Nice That.
Caroline Walls
Painting
Sale priceFrom $6,450
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