About The Artist

Karen Burgess is an award winning fine art photographer based in Sydney, Australia, who graduated from Sydney College of the Arts in 1981. Karen’s interest lies in featuring everyday objects and locations, isolating them from their mundane environment to show each in an entirely new light. Her work explores themes of how nature transforms our man made mark, by subtly changing the surfaces over time of our efforts to build mighty shrines to the car and our material world. Karen images the often unnoticed sandstone basement walls of car parks and metal dumpsters where she isolates the natural patterns achieved through years of weathering, focusing too, our eyes on these natural murals. Recent work follows on from this theme, with her images focusing on patternicity, the way our mind sees patterns among us and turns these patterns into human form Karen’s first solo exhibition of Organic Landscapes was held at the prestigious Australian Museum, Sydney, as part of the Head On Photo Festival. In May 2015, Karen was a selected artist in ArtVenice Biennale 3, where her images were shown during the Venice Biennale. Karen’s work is found in private collections in Europe, Sydney and Los Angeles. Solo Exhibitions 2016 me.artspace. Sydney. Head On Photo Festival. Associated Exhibition. 2015 Australian Museum. Sydney. Head On Photo Festival Associated Exhibition. Group Exhibitions 2016 International Photographer of the Year. People – Lifestyle – Honourable Mention Light Space and Time Online Art Gallery. Nature – Juried Exhibition. Special recognition Light Space and Time Online Art Gallery. Figurative Art – Juried Exhibition. Special recognition Darkroom Gallery, Vermont USA. Juried Exhibition ‘ARTIfact’ Honourable Mention Atlantic Works Gallery Boston, USA. The Boston Biennial 4 Juried exhibition, finalist Darkroom Gallery Vermont, USA. Juried Exhibition ‘Chroma’ Darkroom Gallery Vermont, USA, Juried Exhibition ‘Culture’ International Photographer of the Year – People – Lifestyle – Honourable Mention Fine Art Photography Awards – Abstract – Nominee 2015 International Photographer of the Year – Fine Art, Abstract – Honourable Mention Fine Art Photography Awards – Abstract – Honourable Mention ArtVenice Biennale 3, Selected artist, Venice Italy 2014 Warringah Art Prize, NSW AUS – selected