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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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...
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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3 days after we said goodbye
The Messen Kunstnarhuset (Art House Messen) artist residency is the brainchild of a collective of a group of generous and hard working artists from...
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2019 brings a new arrival
Ever had a truly inspiring teacher? At 21, having completed a largely theoretical Arts degree in Fine Arts and Philosophy at Sydney University, I did...
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Residency at Hafnarborg, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland.
Carol Archer was granted a month-long residency in May 2017 in Iceland. The residency is located at Hafnarborg – Hafnarfjörður Centre of Culture...
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A working holiday in Macao
Carol Archer returned to Macao for the first six weeks of 2017, seeing in the Year of the Rooster with old friends and colleagues. The trip also gave...
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Artist Residency at Mas Els Igols, Barcelona, Spain (January and February, 2016)
In January and February 2016, Carol Archer was artist-in-residence at Mas Els Igols, an art residency located in the vineyards of the Penedes region...
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