Caroline McQuarrie
Curiosity about what is tangible and what is intangible, what traces remain, and whose lived experiences are valued enough to be recorded are strong drivers in Caroline's practice.
Caroline McQuarrie is a contemporary artist and photographer. Born in 1975, she lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington.
Caroline is an interdisciplinary artist who has long been exploring personal and familial histories and the role that photography and hand-crafted textile might play in interrogating these narratives. Curiosity about what is tangible and what is intangible, what traces remain, and whose lived experiences are valued enough to be recorded are strong drivers for her practice.
Caroline has spent several years photographing sites of 1800s mining industry—tunnels, tailings, inclines, paths—places of man-altered hills, rivers and bush. These are sites of former prosperity, of once bustling industries, and sites of change and trauma. Caroline often focuses her gaze on the historical and ecological legacies of the area around her family home in Te Tai Poutini, the West Coast of the South Island.
In her embroidered and textile projects, Caroline enjoys bringing to light lesser known or documented stories, particularly those of early settler Pākehā women and their families. These experiences and stories were more domestic and ephemeral, often overlooked, and now mostly lost to the annals of history.
Below is a selection of Caroline's works. Please contact us to to view all Caroline's available works.
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Bullock Creek, Buller District (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Toa Rangatira, Ngāti Rārua rohe), 2022View more details
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Johnny Walker Creek, Buller District (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Toa Rangatira rohe), 2022View more details
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Caroline McQuarrie
This Blasted Heath, 2022
Jhana Millers Gallery
Installation image
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Caroline McQuarrie, The land, again, Aratoi, Masterton
31 Jan - 19 Apr 2026Caroline McQuarrie’s solo exhibition The land, again is now open at Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art & History. Presented by the museum, the exhibition brings together large-scale works in wool,...Read more -
Plus 1
15 May - 7 Jun 2025Jhana Millers presents Plus 1, a group exhibition where a selection of gallery artists each invite a creative companion to exhibit alongside them.Read more -
Cut Flowers, Jaime Jenkins, Caroline McQuarrie, Ann Shelton, Ruby Wilkinson and Erica van Zon
20 Feb - 15 Mar 2025Jhana Millers is pleased to present Cut Flowers, a group exhibition featuring work by Jaime Jenkins, Caroline McQuarrie, Ann Shelton, Ruby Wilkinson and Erica van ZonRead more -
Editions
9 May - 1 Jun 2024Jhana Millers is pleased to present their first print exhibition featuring a group of represented artists.Read more -
Caroline McQuarrie, How deep into the earth we sink
15 Feb - 9 Mar 2024Jhana Millers presents a solo exhibition of woven works by Caroline McQuarrie, How deep into the earth we sink.Read more -
FIVE
7 - 29 Jul 2023Jhana Millers is pleased to present a group exhibition of work by the gallery's represented artists to celebrate the gallery's 5th anniversaryRead more -
Summer Selection
25 Jan - 11 Feb 2023Jhana Millers reopens for 2023 with a selection of works by gallery artists.Read more -
Caroline McQuarrie, It snows in winter: Remembering Waiuta
1 - 30 Jun 2022Online only Part of the Auckland Festival of Photography. Waiuta is an official historic site on the West Coast of Te Waipounamu, run by DOC and community group Friends of...Read more -
Group Exhibition, THE BIG THREE
9 - 31 Jul 2021Group Exhibition, THE BIG THREE. Exhibition at Jhana Millers Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, Aotearoa New ZealandRead more -
Caroline McQuarrie, The New Sun
11 Feb - 13 Mar 2021Caroline McQuarrie, The New Sun. Exhibition at Jhana Millers Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, Aotearoa New ZealandRead more
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How deep into the earth we sink, Ish Doney
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Caroline McQuarrie: Reviewed
Mary-Jane Duffy, Photofourm.nz-org, March 1, 2021 -
Caroline McQuarrie, The New Sun
Heather Galbraith, Exhibition essay, February 11, 2021 -
Prospecting the past: Artist profile
Alice Tappenden, Art News New Zealand, December 22, 2018 -
DEAR DAVE
Susan Bright, Magazine 25, September 23, 2017 -
Photography and suspicion
Lucy Ovenden, EyeContact, May 1, 2017 -
A show for the public
T.J.McNamara, New Zealand Herald, May 1, 2016 -
One Mind with Multiple Bodies (1)
John Hurrell, EyeContact, April 1, 2016 -
Enjoy Public Art Gallery: Homeward bounder
Deidra Sullivan, hashtag500words.com, May 1, 2015 -
Something old, something new: Caroline McQuarrie’s Reasons for Silence
Mark Bolland, Art New Zealand, No. 138, June 1, 2011 -
Uncomfortable at Home: Genevieve Packer and Caroline McQuarrie
Mark Amery, Dominion Post, May 1, 2008
