Back to Iceland – road trip and residency

The last ten days of May 2025 were spent experiencing Iceland’s amazing landscape, travelling around the island in a camper van. This was...

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News from the studio

In recent months I’ve been working bigger and bolder. I’m doing a series of large scale charcoal drawings (76 x 112 cm), as well as oil pastel and...

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Artist Residency at ‘Soaring Gardens’, Pennsylvania

It was a joy to be at Soaring Gardens Artists Retreat for three weeks in September this year, surrounded by beautiful gardens, meeting local creatures...

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A day in NYC, and three in Philadelphia, seeing art mostly

With just one day in New York and in the aftermath of an arduous journey, the priorities were a walk in Central Park (what an oasis), some good food,...

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Residency at New England Regional Art Museum – June 26-30, 2024

This winter, I headed up to New England Regional Art Museum in Armidale, N.S.W. with poet/painter/partner  Kit Kelen, to continue work we started...

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‘Thicket’ – Easter 2024 (Thurs March 28 – Tues April 2)

The opening of ‘Thicket: works on paper by Carol Archer’ was on Friday 29 March, 2024  (Good Friday) from 2pm – 5pm at The Shop...

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Making art in Vatra Dornei, Romania and Dombóvár, Hungary

In May and June 2023, I visited Hungary and Romania. A working holiday, the trip combined sustained periods of creative work undertaken during stays...

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‘Thicket’ shortlisted for Waverley Art Prize

My five-panel concertina book ‘Thicket’ has been selected as a finalist for the Waverley Art Prize 2023 and will be on show from July 1 at the...

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New directions

Sometimes it’s good to shake things up a bit by working with some different formats and techniques.  In recent months I ventured into some new...

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Artist residency at Vanha Paukku Cultural Centre, Lapua, Finland

It’s September 2022 and the final days of Carol Archer’s month-long artist residency at Cultural Centre Vanha Paukku, in Lapua, Finland. And...

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Carol Archer and Kit Kelen: NERAM artists-in-residence, May 2022

Carol Archer and Kit Kelen were joint artist-and-writer-in-residence at New England Regional Art Museum from May 17 to 30 this year. Post pandemic, we...

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‘Inhalare/ breathe upon’

The Inhalare/ breathe upon project has been quite a journey, and now it’s all come together in an exhibition in Coonabarabran!   ...

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