Rachel Carroll.

Rachel Carroll’s expressive paintings are deeply informed by place and environmental awareness. With a practice spanning more than two decades, Carroll paints landscapes that endure—bringing the “bush to the city” and encouraging connection to the natural world. Her work, increasingly abstract yet firmly rooted in landscape, reflects years of travelling, camping, and painting on Country across Australia, from the Yorta Yorta Country ( Murray–Darling Basin) to Arrernte Country (Uluru and Alic Springs).

With a master’s degree from the College of Fine Arts, UNSW.  Carroll began a 13-year journey through the Murray Darling Basin; this began her obsession with making art that explores the relationship with our most sacred environments. Meeting with scientists and Indigenous elders when permitted Carroll’s art became a well-informed journey through country. Later this journey led Carroll to explore the Daintree Tree Rainforest, the world’s oldest Rainforest, and finally the Larapinta Trail and Uluru. The spiritual centre of this unique country. A place that finally felt like a connection to culture was made.

Working across oil painting, mono-printing, encaustic, mixed media, and acrylics, her practice celebrates the beauty, fragility, and ancient knowledge embedded within the Australian landscape.

2025 - Carroll won the inaugural North Sydney Art Prize (Lifeline) Art Prize, judged by Gallerist Damien Minton, and was a finalist in the Hawkesbury Art Prize.

2026 – Carroll is a finalist in the Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Awards at Manly Art Gallery & Museum.