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Caroline Rannersberger (born 1961 in
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) is an Australian visual artist based in
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. Her work spans several mediums, including painting, installation art, printmaking, and curating. Rannersberger is best known for landscape paintings that examine "the dualities of the natural landscape". Much of her work is influenced by the rhizomatic model of Deleuzian philosophy (
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), in which the existence of multiple viewpoints, rather than one fixed perspective, enables a landscape to contain multiple (and even shifting) points of connection across time and space. Rannersberger has collaborated with other artists in multi-form installations, including New York-based Australian musician Sam Nester. Her work is held by the
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and the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. Rannersberger has been a finalist in major Australian art prizes, including the Glover Prize. Rannersberger is a director of the
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Foundation for the Arts.


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