Artist Profile

Caroline Batchelor is an artist based in Melbourne, Australia.

Her practice spans painting, drawing, and collage, with a primary focus on abstract oil painting. While studying at RMIT University in the early 2000s, Caroline developed a strong interest in non-objective forms that engage with the metaphysical dimensions of human experience.

Her imagery often explores states of the in-between — moments of becoming or transition. These include conditions felt between presence and absence, time and timelessness, remembering and forgetting, stillness and motion, solid and void. A quiet tension emerges between what is, and what is slipping away, evoking a sense of loss and longing alongside an awareness of impermanence. In this way, her work poses questions about our sense of reality: Is something real because we sense it, or does it exist beyond perception? What is reality? What is abstract?

Caroline holds a Master of Fine Art from RMIT. Alongside her career in education, she maintains a studio practice in Richmond, Melbourne.

Please make contact via Email or Instagram if you wish to enquire about art availability and viewing.

info@carolinebatchelorstudio.com

Exhibition History

SELECTED 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 

2007 On Edge, 69 Smith Street Gallery, Collingwood  

2006 Reading Between the Lines, First Site Gallery 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 Geography of the Soul, Wonderground Barossa, Seppeltsfield, SA 

‍ ‍Abstract Show, Grainger Gallery, Canberra, ACT 

2024 Teacher/Maker/Creator, RMIT University, Brunswick Campus 

2023 A Conflict of Green, Wonderground Barossa, Seppeltsfield, SA 

2021  Of Colour & Light, (Women’s Biennial) West End Art Space, Melbourne 

‍ ‍Homologies of Hope, West End Art Space, Melbourne 

‍ ‍St Kevin’s College Art Show 2021, Melbourne 

‍ ‍Transcendence, Grainger Gallery, Canberra 

2020 Layers of Time, West End Art Space, Melbourne 

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  11x11, LaTrobe Street Gallery, Melbourne 

‍ ‍ Salon Show, C3 Contemporary Art Space, Abbotsford Convent 

‍ ‍ Waverley Art Prize, Waverley Woollahra Art Centre, Sydney 

2008 Salon Show, C3 Contemporary Art Space, Abbotsford Convent 

‍ ‍ Small Works 08, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy 

2007 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  

2005 SIEMENS RMIT Fine Art Scholarship Exhibition, RMIT Gallery  

‍ ‍8 x10, Ten Year Anniversary Show, LaTrobe Street Gallery