I FOKUS - Artist Presentation with Caroline Roberts

The relationship between people and the wildness of the natural world lies at the core of Caroline Roberts’ work. She thinks about the way landscapes change, the traces we leave, and the narratives we form about places. Roberts’ personal relationship to a place - the climate, the native plants, the landscape - is the spark for each body of work. Caroline is an experimental photographer who makes images without a camera by using light-sensitive papers and chemicals. She is drawn to the immediacy of these processes, which include variations on some of the earliest photographic discoveries from the nineteenth century - cyanotype and silver nitrate. She pushes the boundaries of her processes, playing scientific documentation against organic exploration as two sides of the same urge to discover and examine the world.Caroline has a background in Chemical Engineering as well as an MFA from the University of Houston. Born in the United Kingdom, she lives and works in Houston, Texas.

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