The timed auction ends Thursday August 13th at 8:00pm. Whoever holds the highest bid at the auction closing time wins.
Caroline Borghetto
Familiar Ground, 2026
Acrylic and pencil on clear-primed canvas
Height 40 cm x Width 40 cm
Artwork is stretched and ready to hang & comes with a certificate of authenticity
Starting Bid: $500
Familiar Ground reflects on the quiet tension between familiarity and belonging. Two forms exist in close proximity, connected yet distinct, suggesting relationships shaped by both closeness and difference. The work considers how individuals move within families, communities and broader social systems, where shared experiences can create connection without dissolving difference. Built through translucent layers of acrylic on clear-primed cotton canvas, the exposed surface remains active within the composition, allowing restraint and materiality to carry emotional weight. Rather than offering certainty, the painting invites viewers to reflect on the subtle negotiations that shape our sense of place and belonging.
Artist Bio: 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.