Infinite Herbarium Morphosis #3 and #5

Caroline ROTHWELL 

Born 1967, Hull, England 

Lives and works in Sydney, New South Wales 

Caroline Rothwell is a multidisciplinary, concept-driven Australian artist whose work explores ecology, nature, poetic and political ideology through process and form.  

Her work Infinite Herbarium Morphosis consists of six HD digital video works made in collaboration with Google Creative Lab, where generative AI, historical botanical imagery, plant classification and machine-learning are combined to create new species of morphing botanical forms. 

Rothwell aims to expand our experience of the vast, diverse botanical world – creating connectivity to plants and their threatened ecosystems. In her words: “Our understanding of plant life, particularly of how fundamental it is for our existence, is vital with the environmental catastrophe we find ourselves in. We take our ‘ecosystem services’ for granted. We can’t exist without plants. So, I’m interested in plants existentially as well as in their formal and mathematical shape. The more we know about the natural world around us, the more connected we are, the more we understand how fundamental it is to us”.