Karen Coull (Love Walking in Snow)
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Karen Coull (Love Walking in Snow) STATEMENT I finished my degree in fine arts with a major in painting thirty years ago however have always embraced the intimacy of smaller 3D pieces/mixed media. I have an obsession with and adore the process of collage. The intimacy and quiet (and perhaps domestic nature) of cutting and pasting a pastiche of images to re-imagine new work to tell a story. I dispute the notion that the personal and private in artmaking is self seeking or immature and use my personal experience as a starting point to make art. A little like taking cuttings to reproduce from a personal garden. I love using and recycling old vintage papers and vintage magazines primarily from the 1950s and 1960s and currently vintage French fashion magazines–the ephemeral and the discarded. That which is fleeting/passing/transitory and impermanent. BIO I currently live in Sydney, Australia and after living in Paris, France for a number of years try to regularly return to Paris to produce work. Coull holds a BA in Visual Arts (Painting) from the University of Western Sydney. She is the recipient of a William Fletcher Trust grant. Her work has been shown in group and solo shows across Australia and in France. Her work is found in collections in Australia, France, the U.S. and the United Kingdom. Her work has been reviewed in the Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, and the Sydney Daily Telegraph by reviewers including Sebastian Smee, Joanna Mendelssohn, Bruce James, Anne Loxley, and Courtney Kidd. ARTIST CONTACT [click to email] IMAGES
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