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Karen Coull
About
Sydney 1961 - currently living and working in Paris, France.
Sweet Dreams.
The original concept of the work I envisaged it as a small story via my experience of sleeping (and subsequently dreaming) during and after my illness. I dispute the notion that the personal and private in art making is self seeking and unworthy, instead I diffidently used this narrative to begin the art making process.
The use of the pillows, to me represent the sleep or the scarcity of sleep and the desire and inability for even a flawed or defective sleep. In contrast of the ordered and pure whiteness of the pillows my use of the pins represents a very uncomfortable respite and would ensure no sleep would be had. (This follows on from my previous use of thorns on domestic items - pillows, scrubbing brushes, brooms and gloves). The process of placing the pins in the pillows a very repetitive, perhaps even domestic process?
I have chosen text as a means of communication and interaction. The text represents a visual imagery as well as an intellectual connection with text that the language entails. Some viewers may respond to the visual aspects of the text as well as to the overall greater body of work.
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- Location
- Paris, France
Karen Coull
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
SOLO SHOWS
2001 "Soft Touch" Gallery 4a, Asian Australian Art Gallery, Sydney
2000 "Some days are diamond, some days are gold" Casula Powerhouse,
Sydney
1999 "Balancing Act" University of Western Sydney, Nepean, Sydney
1999 "Striving for the unobtainable order..." The Performance Space,
Sydney
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2008 "Bent Western" Blacktown Regional Gallery, Sydney
2007 Art +Humour too Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
2006 Railway Clearways Conference, Sydney
2006 Walking the Streets Newtown, Sydney (Winner Peoples Choice Award)
2006 The Great Escape, Sydney
2005 "Sculptured", Penrith Regional Gallery, Sydney
2003 "Boofheads and Scrubbers Revenge", Penrith Regional Gallery, Sydney
1999 "Out Art", Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney
1998-00 "Cars and Culture - Our Driving Passions", Powerhouse Museum,
Sydney
1998 "Women's Labour", Blue Mountains Women's Health Centre, Katoomba
1998 "Girlfriends...(and a few good blokes)",Casula Powerhouse, Sydney
1997 "Love letters to John McDonald" 151 Regent Street Gallery, Sydney
1997 "Read my lips" Fremantle Regional Art Gallery, Fremantle, WA
1997 "How much do you love me" 151 Regent Street Gallery, Sydney
1996 "Parking" Casula Powerhouse, Sydney
1996 "Open" 151 Regent Street Gallery, Sydney
1995 "Off the Walls" Casula Powerhouse, Sydney
1994 "These Passions" Casula Powerhouse, Sydney
1993 "National Graduate Show" Museum of Contemporary Art, Perth, WA
1993 "Out of Bounds" Wentworth Falls School of Arts, Blue Mountains, NSW
1993 "Mary Alice Evatt Award" Campbelltown Regional Art Gallery,
Campbelltown
1992 "National Student Show" Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC
1991 "Voyages" Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD
1990 "Group Show" Fairfield Arts Centre, Sydney
1990 "As one" Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre, Penrith
SELECTED REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS
"Critics Picks", Metro, The Sydney Morning Herald, January 7, 2006
Cathy Pryor, Drawing on the dark side of suburbia, page 15, The Australian, August 1, 2003
Joanna Mendelssohn, "All round country", pg 15, The Australian, Aug 8,2003
Anne Loxley, "Confronting the stereotype with defiance and
affection",pg.16, The Sydney Morning Herald, August 14, 2003
Bruce James, "Taming of the Lewd", Spectrum, pg. 13 The Sydney Morning
Herald, March 3, 2001
Courtney Kidd, "Critics Picks", pg. 27, The Sydney Morning Herald, Feb
23, 2001
Victoria Hynes, "Female Forms", pg. 26, The Sydney Morning Herald, Feb
23, 2001
Sebastian Smee, "Hey Good Looking", pg. 18, The Sydney Morning Herald,
Feb 9, 2001
Courtney Kidd, "Galleries", pg. 13, The Sydney Morning Herald, June 13,
2000
Joanna Mendelssohn, "Parking", pg 43, The Australian, Jan 24, 1997
"Sex is in the Air, even museums are swinging", pg. 3 The Sydney Morning
Herald, Dec 20, 1996
"Paradise by the dashboard light", pg. 15, The Sydney Morning Herald,
Dec 20, 1996
"Pulled over for Passion", pg. 43, The Daily Telegraph, Dec, 1996
Charles Pickett, Cars and Culture, our driving passions, Harper
Collins, Sydney, 1998, pg. 35.
COLLECTIONS
The Liverpool Collection Liverpool Council
Nepean Collection, University Of Western Sydney
The Vice Chancellors Collection, University Of Western Sydney
Various private collections in Australia, UK and US
GRANTS
1992 William Fletcher Trust Grant
BA Fine Art UWS SYDNEY, … Read More
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