Carol Rudyard

Carol Rudyard (18 November 1922 – 15 May 2021) was an English-Australian visual artist, known for her audio-video art installations. She was nominated as a Western Australian Living Treasure in 2004. Her works are held in the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Art Gallery of Western Australia, the University of Western Australia, WAIT, the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery as well as private collections.

Early life Rudyard was born in England in 1922, and was living in Sheffield when she and her husband left in 1947 when he was posted to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands.

The Canberra Times described her Body language video piece in 1992 as "both clever and beautiful which takes the 'Unicorn tapestry' as a text, a phallocentric discourse on bondage and humiliation, which she examines from a feminist perspective".

Rudyard died in May 2021 at the age of 98.

Rudyard is represented in collections of the Art Gallery of NSW, the Art Gallery of WA, the University of WA, WAIT, as well as private collections. WAIT, 1980 Gallery 52, 1982 Art Gallery of WA, 1982 Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1988, 89, 91

Group exhibitions

Art Gallery of NSW, 1971-1973 Adelaide Festival of Arts, 1972 Galerie Dusseldorf, 1981 Fremantle Arts Centre, 1982 University of WA, 1984 Praxis Gallery, 1987 The Australian Bicentennial Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1988