Point of View: Carol Rudyard – Selected Works 1968-1994

About the exhibition
This comprehensive survey celebrated the work of Carol Rudyard, widely regarded as one of the most groundbreaking and influential artists to emerge from Western Australia. The exhibition brought together Rudyard’s early works on paper and abstract paintings from the 1960s and ’70s, and her later audio-visual installations.

Rudyard began her formal art training at the West Australian Institute of Technology, completing an Associate Diploma in Art between 1968 and 1970. Her early paintings from this period were meticulous and minimalist, characterised by elegant hard-edged abstraction. Following a postgraduate diploma in visual art at Curtin University in 1981, Rudyard abandoned painting to explore new media—initially working with slides and sound, and later incorporating video and installation. Her audiovisual installations became known for transforming the everyday and domestic into richly poetic tapestries, often charged with erotic undertones.

Originally organised by the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery at the University of Western Australia, Point of View was reconfigured for Monash University Gallery to incorporate Rudyard's most recent work, Apocryphal Tales, 1994.

Acknowledgements
This exhibition was supported by Sony Australia Ltd.

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^{Image: Carol Rudyard, Visions of Xes 1991 (still), video installation, colour; 12 minute 45 seconds}