Caitlin Fargher is a multi-disciplinary artist and budding arts educator working in sculptural installation, arts production and curation. Caitlin is based out of Good Grief Studios in nipaluna/Hobart, and lives near the bush and rivulet in Kingston. Her work is created through an embodied practice that explores histories, sites, ecologies, and memories. She collects materials responsibly from the environments that her works are informed by, including clay, flora, recycled objects, and minerals. Her methods of making are informed by gardening and cooking techniques, environmental systems, and family traditions. When working with people, she enacts a practice of care, trust, and creativity, allowing the people she works alongside to guide the collaborative, imaginative art making process, learning to together to create experimental and expressive moments in time.
Caitlin’s current projects include a solo exhibition at Devonport Regional Gallery, being one of the lead artists for The Future of Toys: Youngies and Oldies (Hobart City Council x Good Grief Studios), and resident at Poatina Arts Centre in 2024. She undertook the Art Farm Birch’s Bay’s Perennial Residency program in 2023 culminating in the children’s workshop IMAGINATION IRRIGATION; Watch this Space ARI's Travelling Artist Program in mparntwe/Alice Springs in 2021; as well as being Artist in Residence at Hadley's Orient Hotel in 2020 which culminated in the installation Sweet Water. Other recent exhibitions include Nematode Dreams with Selena de Carvalho and Julia Drouhin in 2022, a series of installations that ran along the Hobart rivulet to be viewed as you wondered. She was the Contemporary Art Tasmania Curatorial Mentorship recipient in 2020 with her exhibition re-member. She was a Board Member and producer at Constance ARI from 2018-2024, initating projects such as ngayapi niyakara (Born to Dream), and is currently the treasurer of Good Grief Studios. Caitlin studied at UNSW Art & Design, finishing with First Class Honours in Visual Arts in 2017, and in 2022 she began her Masters of Teaching (Secondary, Arts) at UTAS to further her interest in Art Education. From 2025 she will work as an art teacher at Elizabeth College.
Instagram: @caitfar
Contact: clrfargher@gmail.com