• Factory 49 Tribute Show
    Group Show at Articulate Project Space
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  • 'The Choices We Make'
    Karen Benton 2024
    Recycled denim

    -alludes to the ritual compulsive buying encouraged by the fast fashion industry

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  • Site:Brooklyn New York Gallery
    Online Exhibition 'New Painting' 15th June - 15th July 2023

    'New Encounters' and "Urban Encounters' have been selected for Site:Brooklyn online exhibition 'New Painting'  juried by Rachel Gugelberger - a New York based art curator 

  • 'ABSTRACTI♀︎N' Group Show
    Five Walls Gallery Melbourne
    Opening Fri Feb 3rd 6-9pm:
    Curated by @missy_u_ & @emma.langridge.
     

  • Latest Issue Art Edit 31
    Karen Benton
    'Sacrifice to Save'
    Page 202
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  • Site:Brooklyn New York Gallery
    Online Exhibition 25th February 2022 –  25th March  2022
    Delighted for my work ‘Always Searching’ to be selected for Site:Brooklyn Gallery, New York - online exhibition ‘Contemporary Colour’ juried by Chloe Wyma 
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  • Movement in Stillness
    Exhibition at Scratch Art Space with Jude Williams
    Opening Wed 2 March 2022 6-8pm
    Runs 3-13 March 2022
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  • Site:Brooklyn New York Gallery
    Online Exhibition 23rd December 2021 –  23rd January  2022
    Delighted for my work ‘Sharing a Space’ to be selected for Site:Brooklyn Gallery, New York - online exhibition ‘Pattern and Repetition’ juried by Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy.
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  • Articulate Turns Eleven
    Group Show December 2021
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  • 'Lightness of Being' 
    Group Show at Articulate Project Space
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    29 May - 13 June 2021

  • Group Sculptural Show
    Factory 49
    12 May - 5 June 2021

  • "Open to Uncertainty" Exhibition 2020
    Solo Exhibition at Five Walls Gallery Melbourne
     

  • Large Sculpture Group Show
    Factory 49, Marrickville NSW
    @factory.49 

    On until 4th May 2019

Assembling materials to depict, reveal, suggest, provoke.......

Welcome

Layering of material and metaphor play a key role in my assemblages which are used to depict the emotions and shared encounters experienced within the urban space and to allude to wider environmental concerns.

My practice is situated in the field of extended painting in which I borrow approaches from painting, sculpture and fiber art. Favouring process over image making, I follow in a long line of artists challenging what painting is and what it does.

My sculptural paintings aim for a tension between touch and vision with each arrangement being a twisting and weaving of materials and emotions.

I am interested in the notion of vulnerability with my work often responding to the spaces between strength and fragility, control and spontaneity, familiarity and uncertainty. 

The manipulating of traditional and unconventional materials sees acrylic and ink-stained canvas layered and entwined with an array of repurposed and salvaged textiles and unconventional materials to encapsulate a sense of both connectedness and entanglement.

My process of layering and distorting of boundaries is often a journey where the unexpected and accidental often occurs delivering an element of curiosity and the inexplicable. 

I aim to shift and distort boundaries between mediums to offer different perspectives on an experience and am intrigued by materials that can be shaped by hand, which ‘remember’ the actions performed on them, and reflect these moments in the finished piece.

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Factory 49 Tribute

Delighted to be participating in the Factory 49 Tribute Exhibition at Articulate Project Space: 9-31 March 2024. Artists included are those that showed their non-objective and material-based artworks at Factory 49 from 2016 - 2021. ...Keep Reading

The Choices We Make

The artwork ' The Choices We Make' is made from recycled denim sourced from recycled jeans andĀ alludes to the ritual compulsive buying encouraged within the fast fashion industry...Keep Reading

New Painting Exhibition

Two of my works have been selected by Site: Brooklyn juried by Rachel Gugelberger for the online exhibition 'New Painting'. ...Keep Reading

Abstraction Group Show Five Walls Gallery

Participating in Five Walls 'Abstraction' exhibition with 50 fellow female artists...Keep Reading

Sacrifice to Save

Currently featured in Art Edit magazine (page 202) - the iconography of this large sculptural work 'Sacrifice to Save' questions whether humanity is prepared to make the necessary sacrifices to stop climate change and save our planet. ...Keep Reading

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