Caroline
Esbenshade


Artist

About 
    artist statement
    c.v.

Projects:
    Feminist Mythologies
        Danaë
        Odyssey in Neon

    Still life / material culture
        Repoussoir
        Are you still watching?
        Still life
    Portraits
       
Exhibitions:
  Things that shouldn’t last
  Repoussoir


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Selected curatorial projects


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I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the country on which I live and work and their connections to the land. I pay my respects to Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Indigenous peoples today.

©2026 Caroline Esbenshade
Caroline 
Esbenshade

Beci Orpin: MUSH/ROOM
Sep 2023 - Mar 2024 
Shepparton Art Musuem

A Fieldguide to Exploration


In MUSH / ROOM, visual artist Beci Orpin looks at the process of playing with ideas, using mushrooms and fungi to illustrate the way ideas can unexpectedly pop up from our imagination, like mushrooms spawning suddenly from the ground. Kids and the young at heart will be delighted by Orpin's colourful creations, which she crafts from an array of media to form her fantastical fungi, from towering Puffballs to the tiniest Milkcaps, presenting a MUSH of different mediums in a ROOM full of mushrooms.



Images: Beci Orpin,MUSH/ROOM, installation view, Shepparton Art Museum 2023. Photo:Leon Schoots