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Caroline
Esbenshade

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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

Selected works

My practice is grounded in painting, which I use to interrogate gender, material culture, and art-historical representation. Alongside this, I work with instant film photography as a complementary medium, allowing me to test compositional, temporal, and material concerns that inform the paintings. I occasionally develop installation works when these ideas require spatial or performative resolution.


Study: Mikela 1 (2026), oil paint on canvas, 42x30cm A love letter n.3 (2022), oil paint on canvas, 40x30cm When love hit me like a wave, Isolation still life n.1 (2020), oil paint on canvas, 61x91.5cm Are you still watching? - after François Boucher (2021), oil paint on canvas, 91.5cmx122cm There’s confirmation in silence [2020], oil on canvas, 107x80cm  Tableau for a tragedy (2019), oil on canvas, 122 x 178cm At the adoration (2018), oil on canvas, 40 x 30cm Mask (2018), oil on canvas, 30x30cm



Subjects span themes and subjects to include still life, portraiture, and genre works.