Carole Wilson

Associate Professor in Visual Arts, Federation University Australia
Carole holds a dual role as Associate Professor in Visual Arts in the Institute of Education, Arts and Community and Higher Degrees by Research Co-ordinator in the Graduate Research School. She has previously held leadership positions in the university including Deputy Dean, School of Arts from 2018-2022 and has been a past board member and former Chair of the Art Gallery of Ballarat where she is a current Acquisitions Committee member. As a visual artist living and working in Ballarat, Carole’s original training was in printmaking and she was a founding member of Jillposters, feminist poster group, in 1983 and worked at Another Planet Posters, Melbourne.

Carole has held regular solo exhibitions and participated in curated exhibitions nationally and internationally. For many years she has utilised discarded and salvaged materials such as floral carpets, maps and atlases to create works which engage with aspects of botany, garden history, travel and historical ornament. In recent years she has undertaken residencies in Italy, the US, Malaysia and The Netherlands which have all had a significant impact on her work. She is represented in many public collections including the National Gallery of Australia, the Powerhouse Museum, State Library of Victoria and a number of regional and university galleries. Her posters are in museum collections in Finland, the Czech Republic, Russia and Poland.

Areas of expertise: Practice-led research in the visual arts, particularly in the fields of textiles, works on paper, printmaking, painting and installation.

Research interests: Carole is a member of the Artful Engagements with Place: Space, History, Society research group which activates social, political, environmental and historical themes, from the personal to the global, to interrogate the human and more than human forces that shape our past, define our present and influence our future. She supervises broadly across the creative and visual arts at Honours, Masters and PhD levels.