Caroline Burton resides in Aotearoa, New Zealand, where she creates abstract artworks using a range of mediums, including wool, silk fibres, paint and stitch. Burton’s artwork explores relationships between the physical world and spiritual experience. She works intuitively to give body to the unseen world as she perceives it and voice to the impact on both realms, resulting from our unchecked use of resources.
Often drawing on her Mining Engineering degree, career in mineral process engineering and interest in geological forms, Burton expresses a holistic attitude toward our role in the dynamic between the physical and the intangible. Through materiality and ethereal form, her work suggests the potential for us to gain awareness of the intersection between the two.
Burton has exhibited throughout Aotearoa, including the Estuary Arts and Ecology Award Finalists Exhibition at Uxbridge Arts, the Walker and Hall Waiheke Art Awards, Finalists Exhibition and a number of solo and group exhibitions.
Statement
My art practise is at once a celebration and an exploration. Every time I make art, it is in celebration of the fundamental truth that I have discovered, which is as old as time: that I have been created with creativity in me. At the same time, I am exploring creation itself; humanity, the vastness of the unseen parts of even the very ground beneath our feet. These are the things that remind me that there is so much that we don’t, can’t, won’t know.
The challenge of discovering ways to express these thoughts and explorations using fibres has proved compelling. The process of sculpting and painting with un-spun fibres fascinates me with every new piece that I create. There is an alchemy to the process of transforming wisps of fibre into something with form, structure and strength.
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