Caroline Robinson

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www.cabal.co.nz

ART WITHIN LANDSCAPE AND ARCHITECTURE

personal and collective mythology

Ideas about place making are changing, as our society feels the torque of the unsustainable environmental pressures we have put on the earth. Added to the rise of complexity in our social and cultural dynamics, these challenges evoke a call for a deeper humanity and a more bold imagination. Being at the heart of this collective conversation is what art means to me, exploring questions about who we are, where we have come from, and where we are going.

I sculpt and build with durable materials such as stone, steel and earth, animating public and private spaces with a raw physicality and mythology. The wisdom embedded within each context inspires me, and I use both instinct and active research to draw connections through cultural memory and identity, geology, biology and the full diversity of life expressed within our physical landscapes. The engagement and enhancement of this richness is both provocative and practical as a way of thinking about the future landscapes we are building.

Personal Description

: restoration of wholeness

My methods are highly collaborative. Working within multidisciplinary contexts, I navigate across the poetic and the scientific with engineers, architects, landscape architects, urban designers, local authorities, cultural advisors, historians, blacksmiths, stone masons, construction teams, communities and many others.

This deep collaboration becomes an art form of communication and interdependency, as we sculpt and weave, or engage in the rigorous design and construction processes for built environments such as streetscapes, parks, roads, bridges and buildings. My intent is to inspire both the individual imagination, and the collective dialogue and decision making processes which are shaping our contemporary cities and communities.

Through creative collaborations, I weave the raw forces and elements of the past, present and future, and contribute my part in the restoration of our fundamental wholeness, our Human Nature.

sacred home

At times a personal expression, and at times a collaborative process, the energy source for all of my work resides within a celebration of the sacredness of all life… the sensuous and spiritual intimacy of nature, our nature, calling us home.