Represented by West End Art Space, Melbourne
Karen Prakhoff Rickman is a Boorloo / Perth based artist whose practice is driven by the exploration of the monoprint (unique state prints) and layered bushland as evocation.
Each print layer deliberately overwrites the previous image simultaneously creating and denying form, speaking of memory, loss and renewal. There is something very seductive about this process with its potential for serendipitous mark making and synthesis of painting, drawing and printing. Karen creates her prints in her studio from her photos of landscape fragments and the memories they evoke. She works on 2 or 3prints at a time, exploring an idea and creating links through the repetition of elements via ghost prints, mirror images, and torn paper or bark stencils. She draws into or applies ink with rollers, brushes, rags and cotton buds.
Karen’s nuance response portrays the importance of landscape in our physical and inner lives. Rather than reproducing specific scenes she seeks to convey the sense of being in the landscape, thereby engaging memory and imagination. Her work hovers in the space between figuration and abstraction; between what we see and what we feel.
Karen completed a Master of Creative Arts (MCA) in 2006 at Curtin University. She worked as a tutor and technician in the Print Media Department at Curtin University for 7 years, and as a sessional academic for Open University Australia for 2 years. Karen has exhibited in several solo and group shows in Perth and Melbourne. She has been a finalist in numerous art awards including the Fremantle Arts Centre Print Awards 2023, and overall winner of the Melville Art Awards 2021 (acquisitive). Her work is held in private and public collections.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Beyond the View, West End Art Space, Melbourne, Victoria
2023
Standing Still, Lost Eden Creative, Dwellingup, WA
2023
Tracing the Vanishing, West End Art Space, Melbourne, Victoria
2022
Site Unseen (with Marina van Leeuwen), Earlywork, WA
2021
Featured Artist, NEXTDOOR, WA
2020
Fugitive Fragments, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
2019
Soliloquy, Nyisztor Studio, WA
2019
Altered States, Mundaring Arts Centre, WA
2016
Liminal Spaces, Showcase Gallery Central Institute of Technology, WA
2006
All That Is Solid, Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Pure Contemplation Without Knowledge 13, Nyisztor Studio, WA
2024
Never Alone: Human, Animal, Artist, Rockingham Arts Centre, WA
2023
Baigup Wetlands: Creative by Nature, Ellis House Art Centre, WA
2023
Paper, Nyisztor Studio, WA
2021
Solastalgia, Lost Eden Creative, WA
2021
Modern Holiday Exhibition, Kamile Gallery, WA
2021
Rock, Paper, Scissors, Red Gallery, Melbourne
2020
Modern Holiday Exhibition, Kamile Gallery, WA
2020
NEXTDOOR 24/7 art venue, WA
2019
Scene 2019, Nyisztor Studio, WA
2018
Scene 2018, Nyisztor Studio, WA
2004
I think I see…, Curtin University, WA
AWARDS
2024
Finalist, Darlington Open Art Exhibition, WA
2023
Finalist, Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award, WA
2023
Finalist, Minnawarra Art Awards, WA
2022
Finalist, Melville Art Awards, WA
2022
Finalist, Belmont Art Awards, WA
2022
Finalist, Minnawarra Art Awards, WA
2021
Overall Winner (Acquisitive), City of Melville Art Awards, WA
2021
Finalist, City of Stirling Art Awards, WA
2021
Finalist, Minnawarra Art Awards, WA
2020
Finalist, City of Busselton Art Award, WA
2020
Finalist, City of Bayswater Community Art Awards, WA
2019
Finalist, City of Melville Art Awards, WA
2019
Finalist, Minnawarra Art Awards, WA
2018
Salon des Refusé, Perth Royal Art Prize, WA
2018
Finalist, Minnawarra Art Awards, WA
2006
Invited artist, Joondalup Art Award, WA
2004
Finalist, Fremantle Print Award, WA
1999
Winner (Acquisitive), Printmakers Association of WA Award
COLLECTIONS
City of Melville, WA
Eden Floreat Apartments, WA (11 prints)
