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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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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