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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

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.


Danaë (2026), installation of thousands of plastic gold coins and a soundscape, dimensions variable [photo: Leon Schoots] silk robe oolong (2025), Polaroid 600 film, 10.75x8.84cm Study: Mikela 1 (2026), oil paint on canvas, 42x30cm Neon Odyssey (2017), installation, dimensions variable Are you still watching? - after François Boucher (2021), oil paint on canvas, 91.5x122cm Don't worry, its ok (2022), Polaroid 600 Film, 27.5x21cm (framed) A love letter n.3 (2022), oil paint on canvas, 40x30cm To the place you can't remember (2022), Polaroid 600 Film, 27.5x21cm (framed) When love hit me like a wave, Isolation still life n.1 (2020), oil paint on canvas, 61x91.5cm Ayame (2022), fujifilm instax mini, 25.5x25.5cm (framed) There’s confirmation in silence (2020), oil on canvas, 107x80cm  Chiaroscuro wine (2021), Polaroid 600 Film, 10.75x8.84cm Tableau for a tragedy (2019), oil on canvas, 122 x 178cm Momento Mori, Bordeaux n.1 (2019), fujifilm instax mini, 8x5.4cm At the adoration (2018), oil on canvas, 40 x 30cm Mask (2018), oil on canvas, 30x30cm