"My own interest in the wonders of science and its history influences the majority of my art projects."
Caroline Bouguereau is a member of the Black Church Print studio in Temple Bar, Dublin. Originally from St. Tropez she trained in Rome with artist Giuseppe Gallo, then at the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London and in the Graphic Art Workshop in San Francisco. Her work is in permanent collections including Stanford University Libraries and the Museum of Jurassic Technology, Los Angeles.
Artist Statement
"My own interest in the wonders of science and its history influences the majority of my art projects. My work often explores the sense of curiosity experienced by investigators of natural forms. I use and experiment with lost and forgotten technologies, mechanisms that produce magic and freaks of nature"
"The Natural History museum in Dublin has been a great place for my inspiration during the last months. It gave me the opportunity to produce a series of drawings and etchings related to marine life using its collection and library to work. Its collection of 19th century scientific glass made by the Blaschka family stimulated me to study in a graphic way the geometry of minute natural forms and especially the sea creatures such as jelly-fish and sea anemones"
"My artwork explores microscopic details because they constitute an unknown world to the human eye. The microscopic vision of nature has its own aesthetic language"Porpita
electro-etching, aquatint, sugar-lift
2003