Trisha Carroll b. 1949

Also known as Trish Carroll-Freeman
  • Artist (Painter)
Trisha Carroll is a Wiradjuri painter whose oil and acrylic works are inspired by the environment, local landscapes and animals as well as traditional oral stories.
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Trisha Carroll, Wiradjuri painter was born on the 25th September, 1949 in Grenfell, central west NSW. She spent her school years in Port Kembla and Windang on the NSW south coast and at Moss Vale in the NSW Southern Highlands before returning the central west, this time to Cowra, where she was still residing in 2008. Carroll also spent a short time living in Sydney with her sister Phyllis after the breakdown of her marriage. Carroll’s cousins are painter H.J. Wedge, activist Isabelle Coe and the photographer Alana Harris.

In 1995 Carroll was one of a group of artists commissioned to coordinate and paint murals on the pylons under the Cowra Bridge and in 2004 she received another commission, this time to create the terrazzo floor at the Environmental Learning Facility in Orange, NSW.

Working with sythentic polymer and occasionally in oils on canvas, Carroll’s paintings are inspired by the environment, local landscapes and animals as well as traditional oral stories. Her first exhibition, 'The Lachlan: Blue – Gold’ was held at Grenfell in NSW as part of the Henry Lawson Festival in 2003 and was followed the same year by 'Landscape: Gold & Water’ at Orange Regional Gallery. In 2004 Carroll worked collaboratively with a local non-Aboriginal artist, Mandy Martin, for the show 'Absence and Presence’ that was held at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery in Paddington, Sydney and then again later that same year at Christine Abrahams Gallery in Melbourne. In 2005 Carroll worked again alongside Martin on the show 'Land, Our Life’ that was exhibited at the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture in Canberra. She also participated in the Jody Chester curated group show of Aboriginal artists, 'Movin’ Round: Indigenous Art of the Central West’, shown at the Orange Regional Gallery. The following year Carroll was invited to participate in 'Landscape Now: 36 Artists Interpret the Landscape’ at the Solander Gallery in Canberra and in 2007 Carroll’s work was included in 'Beyond Hill End’ for the Cudgegong Gallery in Gulgung, NSW.

Carroll was a finalist in the 2005 Alice Springs Art Prize and in the 2006 Kilgour Prize at Newcastle Regional Art Gallery.

Writers:
Allas, Tess Note:
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed

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  • Kilgour Prize (received)
  • Alice Springs Art Prize (received)
  • Kilgour Prize (received)
  • Alice Springs Art Prize (received)