Delighted to be a finalist in the Hawkesbury Art Prize 2025
Enjoying a week teaching as a Guest Artist at Loretto Kirrabilli.
Delighted to win the Main Award at the Inaugural Lifeline Art Prize 2025- North Sydney – thanks to the judge Damien Minton.
On until April 9, 2025 – Thanks to Quest North Sydney – The Major Sponsor.
200 Miller Street North Sydney.
Dickerson Gallery 2024-2025
I was overjoyed to be invited to exhibit in this wonderful Group exhibition thanks to Ross Heathcote.
Momentum – International Women’s Day 2025 – our first exhibition at Mary Mckillop Place. A wonderful tranquil hub in a buzzing North Sydney.
MOMENTUM – Women in Art 2025 – We celebrated International Women’s Day in a Gorgeous 1900 School House – The Exhibition was March 7 – 13. It was a huge success; we raised more than $600 for Mary’s House in North Sydney. Thanks to Mary Mackillop Place for Hosting this exhibition.
Now on at Royal Art Society. New exhibition for Autumn – Judged by Evert Ploeg – My artwork below is from the Arrernte Series – Northern Territory. The Red Earth glows in this region, but at dusk the colours soften and a slight haze falls on the region. The activity and the buzz of insects subsides and a gentle breeze flows through the long dry grasses.
It is Now available to purchase. Acrylic on Canvas 100cm x 100cm – $2500
First Show for the year – the RAS Drawing exhibition and award! Walker Street, North Sydney. View a lovely variety of drawings.
Reflecting on a Year that was….2024
This year has been another wonderful richly diverse time of new exhibitions, and art classes and adventures. I am forever grateful for the people who join all my classes and workshops, big and small.
I am forever excited at meeting the people who buy my art, to hear their experience of the artwork and in return for them to take such a keen interest in the locations I have chosen to paint and why. I celebrate our country, our natural world, every sunrise and sunset or as I now prefer to see it as Civil, nautical and astronomical Twilight. Plus how every opportunity I can I make all my art events a charity event.
This year in my Women’s curated exhibition at Art Bau we supported Local Kind, and again in December I curated an exhibition for Local Kind, with 90% of all art selling and raising over $5000. It is community events like this that truly excite me about the power of art to support others. The artists get exposure and the exhibition experience, and they meet new buyers. Plus, we are helping others in need.
We also united as Artists and created a local exhibition for Ocean Week and raised money for ORRCA. Small but effective! and Supported by Northern Beaches Council.
I also had the joy of sharing more of my Father’s work with everyone this year and we achieved a book event at Singleton Art Gallery thanks to Gavin Fry who made it as a guest speaker, I sadly was ill and didn’t make the event, but I hope to get up there soon with an artwork donation to the New Gallery.
Plus, I am delighted to now have my first exhibition with Dickerson Gallery, thanks to the Curator Ross Heathcote. Here I have continued to share my love of Arrernte Country and its colour, energy and space that is so enjoyed. and missed, but thanks to art, not totally missed as art has this wonderful ability to transport you straight back to the location you love and day you loved it, reminding you why you can’t wait to return to.
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New – Workshops for Adults – En Plein Air
Two Day Workshop for adults _ En Plein Air
Finally, I have set aside time to create workshops for adults in the Holidays.
This is a two-day workshop that explores ways to paint and draw on location. We all spend so much time painting in a studio or inside and we rarely get that time needed out in the land.
This is a simple introduction to help build your confidence in En Plein Air. Feel confident to take a sketch book with you on every holiday and feel confident to even use a little paint when you are all set up in a cafe or even in a field surrounded by subject opportunities. I have also drawn from my car in the rain. Never let an opportunity pass you by to capture on paper what is right in front of you.
Semi-abstract, realistic landscapes…anything goes!
This first workshop in October has booked out! But feel free to email me to be part of the next workshop series. This is just the beginning.
New workshop on December 12 for En Plein Air. A one- day experience. Includes morning ea, lunch and afternoon treats.
Please email to get on the list for 2025! rachel@rachelcarroll.com.au
Two -day workshop for adults drawing – En Plein Air
WHITE BAY POWER STATION
20-22 Sept – All welcome!
I am delighted to be a finalist in the 2024 Green Way Art Prize. Hope you can join September 20 – 6pm-9.30pm
Encaustic Artwork – Twilight, mixed media on board 90cm wide
I am delighted to be in a new exhibition in Canada – I have been selected to exhibit an Encaustic Artwork in September 2024
A Group Exhibition at Woollahra Gallery in Red Leaf with TVS – The Tree Veneration Society.
April 5 – 30 with the TREE VENERATION SOCIETY. In Conversation – Artists included:
Badger Bates, Blak Douglas, Kassandra Bossell, Paula Broom, Rachel Carroll, Jean Burke, Melinda Clyne, Ambi Devi, Kathryn Dodd Farrawell, Louise Fowler-Smith, Amanda Farquharson, Jude Fowler-Smith, Jan Garben, Elizabeth Gervay, Jane Green, Terhi Hakola, Kit Hoisington, Hobart Hughes, Adrienne Hunt, Ch’ng Kiah Kiean, Janet Laurence, Songshi Li, Jenny Orchard, Liz Perfect, Sally Reinhardt, Penny Simons, Bernadette Smith, Jane Théau, Miho Watanabe
Arboreal Narratives
This exhibition honours trees and acknowledges their value across cultures through the work of two First Nation artists, Blak Douglas and Badger Bates, and 10 artists from the Tree Veneration Society.
Tree Veneration Society artists: Amanda Farquharson, Hobart Hughes, Jean Bourke, Jude Fowler-Smith, Kassandra Bossell, Liz Perfect, Louise Fowler-Smith, Miho Watanabe, Paula Broom, Rachel Carroll
The Tree Veneration Society is a contemporary eco-arts collective with a focus on trees, their ecosystems and human interactions with them.
House & Garden April 2023 Edition – Thanks to Interior Designer Hennrietta Summerhayes
Press and images from my recent exhibition at
Rex-Livingston Gallery, Katoomba – TOWARD ABSTRACTION – Feb 2023
My Entry into the INCOGNITO Art event 2022 – I painted three palm trees without using a brush. Can you guess how it was painted?. I so enjoy this charity event and hearing how people find me amongst 3000 entries. Each Artwork is a5 in size and all $100each, you can only buy 3 max and you don’t know who you have selected until you have purchased the work. People cued the night before in the middle of winter. Such amazing results and all the money goes to Studio A who help Artists with disabilities. July 2022
WONDERMENT
When life has some strange turns we often ask what is the point of art? I have had the joy of answering this very question recently and the word is Wonderment. If art can provide wonderment in a world where fast and furious seems to be the norm. If we can stop and reflect and re-connect with the details of life through art, details that we may have forgotten to notice.. the bark on a tree, the movement of water. The glow of the moon. Then art has done its job.
To add to that if I can also fundraise with my art, sell my art to help others, then as an artist I feel I have done two things with my art.
Let me know what you opinion of this is… how do you see the purpose of art fits into our day to day lives? email me Rachel@rachelcarroll.com.au
May 18 – 2022
I am delighted to announce that I have been made a member of the Australian Watercolour Institute.
I am humbled and honoured to receive this momentous offer of membership.
Next year they celebrate 100 years
Check out their long standing history on their webiste and obtain their amazing book that includes artwork by all members.
Happy 2022
My New Exhibition BUSHLAND TO HEADLAND is at REX-LIVINGSTON in Katoomba
2-31 Jan.
Feel free to pop in or see the Full Catalogue HERE. It is a joint exhibition with Peta Dzubiel.
A percentage of all sales will go to Rainforest Rescue. Who are doing great work to expand the Daintree Property by Property,
December 2021
Last month I donated to some important charities. All five bird artworks up for grabs for the Sydney Kids Hospital have Sold.
My exhibition Bloom is at Randwick Children’s Hospital has just ended but I am now taking commissions and I have a few artworks left. I am excited and overwhelmed by the response.
Thank you!
Yesterday I was named a % protector for Rainforest Rescue. They support the expansion of the Daintree Rainforest by buying back land. At the moment they are up to about 30 properties.
For the rest of the month I am giving 30% to Ranforest Rescue every time I sell a bird artwork or print. Tobias the Black Cockatoo is print no.1 prints are as little as $65 for A4 or $100 for A3 size.
My new series of Australian Native’s for Randwick Children’s Hospital is on display for 3 months. It is a fundraiser that supports Children with cancer. For the first time the whole exhibition can be viewed online. View the online exhibition HERE
This new body of work was a challenge as I had never painted 30 artworks of Australian Natives. I did a lot of research along the way and went on many bushwalks to get close to my new subject. I chose a variety of approaches. Oil on linen, acrylic on board and I made a lino print. In the end I put them all in the exhibition unable to decide which I preferred. If you have a look feel free to tell me which ones you prefer. Sept 2021
Below the Lockdown Art – new ideas – new challenges. Printing with nature!
Painted in 2020 – this series of headlands was a response to the lack of travel during COVID. As an artist it was interesting to explore my local headlands with fresh eyes.
I also expanded this series in 2021 to encaustic. All the work will go on display
July 10 at Rex-Livingston Gallery, Katoomba. – POSTPONED
2021 – MARCH – ART FOR AIR – Just now I am helping 18 women have an exhibition at White Rhino Artspace. I really enjoy the process and the ability to mentor emerging Artists. The exhibitors are my past and current students, some are already practicing artists. As a group small works have donated a small work each for a charity – UNICEF. We are raising much need funds so India can buy more Oxygen.
This Event finished with over $1000 going to UNICEF.
SEE Video’s from the night here: ART FOR AIR
Emergent January 2021 – Curated by Sarah Rose. A wonderful Group Exhibition that I was apart of at ARTSITE Gallery in Camperdown.
Queenwood workshop for year 11
This was a great morning workshop with year 11 in encaustic – May 2021
We played with photo transferred
Encaustic and mixed media
2020
I was a finalist in the Gosford Art prize 2020. The Artwork Approaching storm is an encaustic artwork on board.
A final exhibition for 2020 – chance to final get back out after a very strange year. All new coastal landscapes on linen to celebrate the coast so close to home. No chance for travel in the last 12 months.
2020 – SOLO at Rex-Livingston Gallery – Katoomba
MARCH 2020 – This Term I am an Artist in Residence at Monte Sant Angelo Mercy College. I have my own studio onsite and I then teach students encaustic, mono printing and more in small classes for year 9, 11 + 12.
Feeling lucky – a new body of work has started thanks to this residency. See my NEW Instagram site @rachelcarrollart to see the work as it progresses.
2021
I curated this great exhibition and it made for a great start to 2020 – Nine of my students had their first exhibition in a cute little venue in Manly for International Women’s Day! We are all inspired to have more exhibitions as a group, contact me if you would like to join the next one!
Rachel Carroll Studio 
