Caroline Borghetto

Caroline Borghetto is a contemporary abstract painter whose work explores tension, proximity and exchange through restrained forms and layered mark-making. Caroline Borghetto is a contemporary abstract artist based in Torquay, Victoria, working primarily in painting. Much of her work emerges from an ongoing interest in proximity and belonging—the experience of being connected to people, places and cultures while never fully occupying their centre.

Through a restrained visual language of layered forms, gesture and spatial relationships, Caroline explores the tensions that exist between connection and separation, familiarity and distance. Working between considered structure and responsive mark-making, her paintings consider how meaning is formed through exchange, negotiation and the spaces that exist between individuals, communities and cultures.

Materiality plays an important role in her practice. Working across clear-primed cotton canvas and Belgian linen, she allows the surface to remain visible beneath translucent layers of paint, graphite and pencil, creating works that balance restraint with emotional weight.

Caroline has been exhibiting since 2022 and has undertaken artist residencies including the Neighbourhood Lab Residency at Platform Arts in Geelong. Her work has been shortlisted for the Omnia Art Prize and the Hue & Cry Art Prize, and was awarded First Prize in Art Inside the Box, Torquay.

She currently works full-time from her studio within the Ashmore Arts artist community on Wadawurrung Country.