(b. 1967, UK/Australia) is a multidisciplinary artist with a research driven practice looking to the intersection of art, science and nature. She works across two and three dimensional media in the expanded disciplines of sculpture and installation and has an exhibiting history across national and international museums, biennales and art fairs. Rothwell looks to archive, history, data and site to consider multi-species interconnection, environmental care, technology and the future. Rothwell has a BA from University of the Arts London, UK and MFA in sculpture from Hunter College, City University of NewYork, USA and University of Auckland, New Zealand. She currently lives in Sydney, Australia. In 2024 Rothwell was a Creative Australia resident artist at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. Rothwell’s work has been exhibited widely including Patricia Piccinini and Caroline Rothwell: Interconnected Entities , Yarrila Arts and Museum (2025); Ross & Rothwell: in the same boat , Ngununggula Regional Gallery (2024); The National: New Australian Art , The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (2021); Know My Name: Australia Women Artists 1900 to Now , National Gallery of Australia (2021); Antipodes : Cut Apart, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge University (2016); Fragil , Cuena Biennale, Ecuador (2016); Dark Heart , Bienniale of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia (2014). Rothwell was awarded the Loti Smorgon Sculpture Terrace commission at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia in 2016 and the Economist Plaza, London commission for Contemporary Art Society, London in 2009. In 2020, she collaborated with Google Creative Lab to create Infinite Herbarium , a participatory ML Web App and multi-channel video series which has shown at Sydney Botanical Gardens, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia, and at Artificial Evolution & Sustainable Futures , Art Taipei, Taiwan. In 2024, Rothwell was a Creative Australia resident artist at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris and in 2025 she will show alongside Patricia Piccinini at Yarrila Arts and Museum, NSW. Rothwell’s work is held in numerous collections in Australia and internationally, including the National Gallery of Australia; Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia); Art Gallery of South Australia; Shepparton Art Museum (Australia); University of Queensland Art Museum (Australia); State Library of Victoria (Australia); City of Sydney (Australia); Artbank (Australia); Lyon Housemuseum (Australia); Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa; OMI International Arts Center (USA); Auckland Art Gallery (New Zealand); University of Auckland (New Zealand); and the University of Cambridge (UK).
