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Caroline Roberts explores the uneasy relationship between humans and the natural world. She uses an experimental mix of camera-less processes, chosen for their inherent unpredictability. She disrupts and pushes the boundaries of her processes, playing scientific discovery against organic exploration as two sides of the same urge to examine the world. Her practice is underpinned by obsessive testing, mirroring our human attempts to understand and control nature.
Roberts’ solo and small group exhibitions include museums and art spaces as well as galleries across the US and Europe. Born in the United Kingdom, she lives and works in Houston, Texas.
I took the Agora Mentorship class with Pablo Giori in Spring 2024. The feedback and questions from Pablo and my fellow students gave me increased clarity on my project and ways to talk about it. The focus of the course worked for both ongoing projects as well as those that are ready to exhibit.
Pablo’s questions, which he sends at the start of the course, kept us focused on the concepts of our work. I found having the questions before me as I prepared my presentation and my notes to be very helpful. I gained a lot of confidence in talking about my project from presenting my work to peers. The comments and feedback from Pablo and the other participants helped me focus on the parts of the project that are especially interesting to others. It’s easy to get caught up in the process and the work - this class reminded me that the viewer is a part of the work too!
It was particularly helpful to have a course in which all the participants are thinking and working in experimental ways. Since everyone understands each others’ processes, the discussion can focus on the work and the concepts, asking how the process might support and deepen the work further.
There was a lot of interaction and we were encouraged to share our opinions. This helped us to think like a curator about each others’ work and start seeing our own work through that lens.
Featured Project
Museum of Stones is about the small stones we pick up and carry with us as talismans for a specific place and time. Displayed around our homes, they become containers for memory. Picking up rocks is a way to give ourselves permission to pay attention to the world around us.
Each form is an interpretation of an actual rock I have found in the ‘wild’. I am not documenting these rocks, but using them to bridge your memories of rocks and my own. They then become portals between our own lived experiences.
Museum of Stones is an exhibition of cameraless photographs, made using alternative processes that combine cyanotypes, chemigrams and lumen prints. I use these processes because they create the visual texture of a rock surface. The flow of cyanotype, water and various salts mimics sedimentation and the formation of rocks. The process is a delicate balance between chaos and control and is a parallel to the lack of control we humans have over our own world.
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