Caroline McGregor is a multidisciplinary artist who was originally seduced by the practice of sculpture whilst studying at the National Art School in Darlinghurst, where she completed her MFA in 2017. Born in South Africa, she now resides on a beautiful bush block in Tasmania, Australia, overlooking the D' Entre Casteaux Channel.
Influenced by the insistent materiality of the minimalist sculptors, and the formal, aesthetic considerations of the Modernists, she creates steel and/or timber sculptures that speak of both the expressiveness and the composure of geometry whilst intentionally referencing architecture and the act of construction.
At present she is constructing intimate works in steel, exploring reduced geometric abstraction in relation to bodily and psychological response. Whilst simplification is a key component of her work, the creation of dynamic tension through a strengthening of relationships between the assembled shapes of her compositions, demonstrates her interest in enriching the object’s viewing period and for creating opportunities for psychological engagement. The same concepts are explored through her paintings and drawings, playing with light and dark to further elaborate on this theme.
Curriculum Vitae
Representation
M Contemporary: Sydney
Nolan Gallery; Hobart
Education
Master of Fine Art, National Art School, Darlinghurst, 2017
BFA(Hons) Sculpture, National Art School, Darlinghurst, 2015
Bachelor of Art , University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, 199
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
"Nocte Luna" Nolan Art Gallery, Hobart 2023
"The Invitation" Sidespace Gallery, Hobart, 2022
"Coming Home", M Contemporary, Darlinghust, 2020
"My Room is Farm of Shadows," Factory 49, Paris, 2019
“Warrior”, Salerno Gallery, Glebe, NSW, 2014
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026. Still; Nolan Gallery, Hobart
2025. Group Show, M Contemporary, Darlinghurst
2025. Breaking Illusion; Abstraction in Action; Long Gallery, Hobart
2024. Nomo Mofo; Nolan Gallery, Hobart
2023/24 The Art Farm Sculpture Prize, Birch;s Bay, Tasmania
2023. Group SHow, M Contemporary, Darlinghurst
2022/23 The Art Farm Sculpture Prize, Birch;s Bay, Tasmania
2022. M Contemporary, Darlinghurst
2022. The Paddock, Posted; Tokyo, Japan
2021/22. The Art Farm Sculpture Prize, Birch;s Bay, Tasmania
2019 Factory 49, Sydney
2019 Alexander's Lover, Stacks Projects, Sydney
2019 The Invitation, White Field, Muswellbrook Regional Art Centre
2018 The Posted Show, Jhb, South Africa
2018 Hornsby Art Prize Finalist, Hornsby
2018 The Posted Show, Paris, France
2017 The Post Grad Show, National Art School
2017 The Studio at Santa Maria a Rignana, Italy
2017 The Posted Show, Aloft, Harlem, USA
2016 Hype, 220 Creative Space, Sydney
2016 Sculpture on the Slab, ARCCO, Marrickville
2016 Still/Dynamic, 220 Creative Space, Sydney
2016 The Paddock Collective, Factory 49, Sydney
2016 Playing With Perspectives, Deloitte, Sydney
2016 Artpark, The Finger Wharf, Woolloomooloo, Sydney
2016 New Kids on The Block, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney
2015 National Art School Postgraduate Exhibition, Sydney
2015 Breaking Space, Imperial Hotel, Paddington, NSW
2015 Hornsby Art Prize Finalist, Hornsby
2015 The Paddock: Looking back at the field. Library Stairwell Gallery
2014 National Art School Graduate Exhibition, Sydney
2014 Organica, Library Square Sculpture Plinth, Lane Cove, Sydney
2014 All the Cool Kids are Doing It, Library Stairwell Gallery, NAS
2013 IV Portraits, China Heights Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2013 Finalist for Gallipoli Art Prize, Sydney, NSW
2012 Selected for Hornsby Art Prize, Hornsby, NSW
2010 Common Ground, Depot 11 Gallery, Danks Street, NSW
2010 Common Ground, The Watch House, Balmain, NSW
Prizes
2016 First Prize, ARTEX, Hornsby, Sydney
2015 Sydney Olympic park Artist in Residence Prize, NAS
2014 John Valance Prize for Sculpture, NAS
2014 Sydney Olympic Park Artist–in-Residence Prize, NAS
Residencies
2023. Perennial Residency@Artfarm Birch’s Bay, Tasmania
2018 BRAG Hill End Art Residency (The Field Project)
2018 Muswellbrook Regional Art Centre Art Residency (The Field Project)
2017 The Studio at Santa Maria a Rignana, Tuscany, Italy (The Field Project)
2016 Sydney Olympic park Residency
2015 Sydney Olympic Park Residency
BOARDS
Art Farm Birch’s Bay Committee Member 2024/2025/2026
McGregor.Stephenson
The Field Project:
Samantha Stephenson & Caroline McGregor
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021/22 The Gift, Art Farm, Birch’s Bay, Tasmania
12 January- 3 March 2019 The Invitation, Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 The Gift, Wollombi Sculpture Festival, NSW
2019 Breaking Clouds, Culture Harvest Art Festival, Muswellbrook,
July 2017 The Studio at Santa Maria a Rignana, Italy
