About
Born in the US, Caroline Esbenshade lives and works in Shepparton, Victoria. She maintains her contemporary art practice whiel working full time as a curator at Shepparton Art Museum (SAM) and pursuing her Masters in Art Curatorship at the University of Melbourne.
In her contemporary art practice, she explores how the narrative of a moment shifts once it has been translated into a painting or photograph, ruminating on memories as physical objects and the experience of love and intimacy. She began experimenting with instant film in 2019 after a decade long hiatus from film photography, gravitating to it for its alchemy-like ability to distil time.
In 2022 she was a finalist in the Tacit Still Life Prize, Kangaroo Valley Art Prize, Little Things Art Prize and participated in two group exhibitions. She started 2023 off with a solo show of instant film photography, Things that shouldn’t last, at Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne for which she received a Quick Response Grant from Regional Arts Australia and Regional Arts Victoria.