Genevieve Carroll was born in 1960 and graduated from the National Art School with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2004. She was the recipient of the Tim Storrier and Annette Onslow Cite International des Arts Paris Residency in 2007.
Genevieve exhibited works at Orange Regional Art Gallery in a solo show, ‘The Wattle Room Chapter 11 oysters and buttered bread’, from 2 February till the 2 April, 2024. She has an upcoming solo exhibition at King Street Gallery in July 2024, ‘The Wattle Room – Chapter 12 – Hill End: The most curious landscape’.
“The Wattle Room is my diary, with the written words expressed as exhibition chapters. I collage my feelings, dislocated fragments trying to reconcile appearing comic. I step off my great love of 20th-century poetry and literature with a fascination for the absurd, which is the foundation of my paintings. I express in optimistic bright colours and exaggerate the repetitive motifs to create a humorous Vanitas concept, making up my own symbols as reminders of how to live my life.”
– Genevieve Carroll [excerpt from exhibition catalogue essay, 2024]
Genevieve’s works were exhibited in a group exhibition, ‘Aliferous: Having Wings’, at King Street Gallery during September 2023, with Angela Malone, Adriane Strampp and David Pearce. She also exhibited in a group show ‘West of Central’, at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery in 2023.
She was awarded the Bathurst Regional Art Gallery Portraiture Prize in 2010, the Cowra Regional Art Gallery Award in 2012 and the Central West Regional Artists Award in 2014. Her work is held by the Australian National Library, Canberra and the Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst.
“…I love to explore ideas of the ongoing struggle and complex relationships between two powers, that of the natural world and humanity, using every day and found objects and creating them into colourful abstract compositions. I love to combine colourful interiors with exterior landscapes, as this way of working becomes a metaphor to represent humankind in the natural world.” – Genevieve Carroll
2024
The Wattle Room Chapter 12 – Hill End: The most curious landscape, King Street Gallery on William, Sydney, NSW
The Wattle Room Chapter 11 oysters and buttered bread, Orange Regional Art Gallery, NSW
2023
The Wattle Room – Chapter 10 – Inherited way of being Wagner Contemporary Gallery, Sydney
2022
The Wattle Room – Chapter 9 – The Circumspect Toothbrush Wagner Contemporary Gallery and Art Month Sydney
Poetic Structures Hill End Art Gallery, NSW
2020
This is not a still life A.K Bellinger Gallery, NSW
The Wattle Room – Chapter 8 – Perhaps Wagner Contemporary Gallery
2017
The anatomy of still life Thurning Villa Ashfield, Sydney
2015
Force of Circumstance Cowra Regional Gallery
2013
The Wattle Room – Chapter 7 – The Bedspread of Natural History Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo
2012
Winter’s Resolve Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW
2010
The Wattle Room – Chapter 6 – Fatigue of the Vertical Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney
2009
The Wattle Room – Chapter 5 – Sisyphus Presence Damien Minton Gallery
2008
The Wattle Room – Chapter 4 – Theatre of the Fatigued Damien Minton Gallery
2007
The Wattle Room – Chapter 3 -Theatre of the Fatigued Cite Internationale des Arts Paris, France
The Wattle Room – Chapter 2 – Blue Lagoon Newington Armoury, Sydney
2025
The Dobell Drawing Prize, NAS, Sydney
2023
Aliferous: Having Wings King Street Gallery on William, Sydney, NSW
Fisher’s Ghost Exhibition, Campbelltown Art Gallery, NSW
The Packsaddle Exhibition, NERAM, NSW
The Summer Exhibition Wagner Contemporary, Sydney, NSW
West Of Central Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, NSW
2022
The Anatomy of Still Life [Animation 5 mins] at Cel – The Artist as Animator Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
SPHERE – The Corridor Project / Inn Commercial Store Taralga, NSW
Just Love Me – Ngayirr Ngurrambang Sacred Country Mudgee Arts Precinct, NSW
40 / 40 Project Wagner Contemporary Gallery
From the Studio Hill End Art Gallery, NSW
Drawing Exhibition Hill End Art Gallery
2021
40/40 Project Wagner Contemporary Gallery Christmas Exhibition Wagner Contemporary Gallery
9 x 5 Exhibition Hill End Art Gallery
Here / Now Orange Regional Art Gallery
2020
The Christmas Exhibition, Wagner Contemporary Gallery
40/40 Project Wagner Contemporary Gallery
This is not a still life A.K Bellinger Gallery Inverell
2019
Modern Love AK Bellinger Gallery Inverell
Wagner Contemporary Gallery
2018
Interiors Orange Regional Gallery
StarPicket Orange Regional Gallery
A response to chaos Articulate Gallery, Sydney.
The Horse Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
Wagner Contemporary
Big Little Histories of Canowindra The Corridor Project Articulate Turns Eight Articulate Gallery
2017
The Hill End Table Bathurst Regional Art Gallery Unpacked Bathurst Regional Art Gallery Collection
Gossamer thread flung The End Festival NPWS, Hill End, NSW Hill End Seven Decades Penrith Regional Gallery
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery Touring Exhibition
2016
Gossamer thread flung Artlands, Dubbo
Second Nature – My thoughts are walking round the table Coolburn, The Corridor Project, Cowra, NSW
2015
We just want to throw flowers at the world Cementa, Kandos
Out of the studio Jean Bellette Gallery, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
200 x 200 Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Sculpture in the Garden Rosby Wines Art Prize
2014
Natura Morta Orange Regional Gallery
Redfern Biennale
2012
Paintings and Photogravure – Genevieve Carroll & Bill Moseley Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney
Out of the Studio Jean Bellette Gallery, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
History of Cell Block Theatre National Art School
2010
The Paris Studio Charles Hewitt Gallery Sydney
2009
Sculpture Jean Bellette Gallery, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Drawn from Hill End Jean Bellette Gallery, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
2005
The Dutiful Daughter Mary Place Gallery, Sydney.
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
National Library Canberra
Vintage printing presses alive and clicking in heritage town of Hill End by Melanie Pearce
ABC News
12 November 2015
