caroline baum

Things I Like

Schön

This is the new range by my friend Traudl Troska. You might know her as the woman behind the Von Troska fashion label, which she sold after 20 years in the business to concentrate on making bold eye-catching silver jewelry, embellished with rare beads collected on her travels far and wide.
Direct Digital Print

This is the company that worked with me to design and print my scarf collection. Their clients are mostly in the fashion and interior design business and their technology is state-of-the art. Sylvia Balog, with whom I worked closely, is a meticulous designer and photoshop wizard!
Charlotte Wood

My friend Charlotte Wood is a novelist. Her second novel, The Submerged Cathedral was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin award. Her latest, The Children, is a tense psychological portrait of a family reunited by crisis in a small country town.
K-tribe

I get more comments when I wear this jewelry than at any other time. It's called Cinnabar and comes from a company called K-tribe. The pieces are strong, ethnic, colourful and based on Chinese cinnabar (a mineral) simulated in resin and set in silver.
Ovation Channel

Ovation is the arts channel on Foxtel. Although I am no longer working with the channel, it still shows a selection of my interviews with some of the best writers from across Australia and around the world in a series called Talking Books.
Editions Gallery

This site is devoted to artists from the Illawarra area where I live. The gallery and its related business, the Photo Fixer, are run by David Corbett, who also prints my images for exhibition and for sale - he's a meticulous perfectionist and takes enormous care with even the smallest job.
Jane Davenport

Jane is a photographer who specialises in close up shots of insects, especially ladybirds and butterflies, as well as flowers and seashells. Her work appears on cards, giftwrap and many publications. I was lucky enough to have her as my neighbour for a short time during which she printed the images for my first exhibition. Since then she has taken her work all around the world and been artist in residence at several botanical gardens. She has now taken her limitless energy and passion for her subject to Byron Bay.