Caroline Borghetto is a contemporary abstract artist based in Victoria, Australia. Her practice explores themes of connection, belonging and tension through a restrained visual language of layered forms, gesture and spatial relationships.

Working intuitively between structure and disruption, Borghetto’s paintings examine the spaces between people, systems and identities—how closeness and distance can exist simultaneously, and how meaning is often carried through subtle exchanges rather than fixed narratives. Influenced by ideas of cultural proximity, inherited identity and the experience of moving between cultures and systems, her work considers what it means to belong, to observe and to negotiate place.

Materiality plays an important role in her practice. Working across Belgian linen and clear-primed cotton canvas, she allows the surface to remain visible beneath translucent layers of paint, graphite and pencil, creating works that balance restraint with emotional weight.

Borghetto has been exhibiting since 2022 and has undertaken artist residencies including the Neighbourhood Lab Residency at Platform Arts, Geelong. Her work has been shortlisted for the Omnia Art Prize and the Hue & Cry Art Prize. She currently works full-time from her studio within the Ashmore Arts artist community on Wadawurrung Country.