Carol Batchelor is an artist based in Melbourne, Australia.

Artist Statement:

My work explores the non-objective world through the sensory experience of paint. Rather than being understood, my paintings are intended to be felt. This could be likened to the experience of music and taps into the notion of the collective unconscious.

Process:

The nature of relations that exist in flux are investigated through formal elements such as colour, tone and edge, played with upon the surface support in an improvised and process-driven methodology, unified over time through layers of paint. Paint is both applied and removed in an improvised way of working that engages me in a dialogue relating to the unknown, uncertainty and the nature of chance.

Biography:

Born in northern Tasmania in 1969, Carol’s early years were transitory moving between Tasmania, New South Wales and Western Australia. In 1998, a relocation to Melbourne brought some stability and an opportunity to study art at RMIT University. In 2004, she obtained her Bachelor of Fine Art with Distinction and in 2006 her Master of Fine Art. Since 2010, she has painted from her studio in Thornbury and has exhibited throughout Melbourne and interstate since 2003. Carol has been involved in art and design education through various institutions since 2007 and currently teaches at Collarts (Australian College of the Arts) in Melbourne.

Solo Exhibitions:

  • 2022 Merge, West End Art Space, Melbourne

  • 2020 Definite Possibilities, West End Art Space, Melbourne

  • 2011 Nothing Like the Sun, Pigment Gallery, Melbourne

  • 2009 Crossing the Line, La Trobe Street Gallery, Melbourne

  • 2007 On Edge, 69 Smith Street, Melbourne

  • 2006 Reading Between the Lines, First Site Gallery, Melbourne

  • 2004 Snap to Grid, First Site Gallery, Melbourne

  • 2003 Third Degree, The Fitzroy Gallery, Melbourne

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2021

  • Of Colour & Light - Abstract Artists Biennial, West End Art Space

  • Transcendence, Grainger Gallery, Canberra

  • St Kevin’s Art Show, Melbourne

2020

  • Layers of Time, West End Art Space

2012

  • Abstract, Subject Matter Art Space, Hawthorn

2011

  • Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, Cowra, NSW

  • Prometheus Visual Arts Award, Gold Coast, Queensland

  • Project 1, The Gallery @ The City Library, Melbourne

2010

  • Becoming Clear, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne

2009

  • 11 x 11, LaTrobe Street Gallery, Melbourne

  • Bell Arti, Chapman & Bailey Gallery, Melbourne

  • Salon Show, C3 Contemporary Art Space, Abbotsford

  • Waverley Art Prize, Waverley Woollahra Art Centre, Sydney

2008

  • Small Works 08, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy

  • Tattersall’s Contemporary Art Prize, Williamstown

  • Stock Room, MARS Gallery, Port Melbourne

2006

  • MFA Graduate Exhibition, RMIT School of Art Gallery

  • Amid: Matter, Light & Place, Alliance Française Gallery, St Kilda

  • SIEMENS RMIT Fine Art Scholarship Exhibition, RMIT Gallery

  • 8 x 10, Ten Year Anniversary Show, LaTrobe Street Gallery