Karen's art practice focuses on the devising of various groupings and systems as agencies of connecting and interpreting notions surrounding identity/legacy, accumulated histories, and sense of place. By incorporating maps, text, assemblage and the photographic image in her work, she juxtaposes and manipulates objects and images in an attempt to order, contain and re-present them in various contexts.

• 2008

Bookmarks VI Infiltrating the Library System (forthcoming, Sept 2008)

Art of Occupation, group show (forthcoming, Sept 2008)

The Sandwich Box Project, in conjunction with TangentProjects (forthcoming)

tangent art zine - ongoing

• 2007

Co-founder, TangentProjects

Rich and Strange, Newport, Wales
Flock, DeviateProjects, London
Destination Area 10, Area 10 Project Space, London

Delicate Situations, web based project

• previous
6x4 Loads!, The Lurking Hole, Nottingham, 2006
Post-it, The Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport, 2006
Publish and Be Damned Travelling Library Archive, Canal, London, 2006
Publish and Be Damned Independent Publishing Fair, London, 2006
[Mostra] IX, Museum of Contemporary Art Union Fenosa (MACUF), A Coruña, Spain, 2006
Paperworld, (tangent) Transition Gallery, London, 2006
Traveling Magazine Table, Iaspis, Stockholm, 2006
The Invisible Reading Room, Containers Village, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne, 2006
Eyelevel Re-shelving Initiative:2 Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2006
Interlude Magazine Launch Event, Limehouse, London, 2006
'The Club' Independent Publishing Event in conjunction with Kiosk, ICA London ), 2006
Artivistic Conference Panel member, Montreal, Canada, 2005
PrintROOM @ HOTEL MARIAKAPEL, Hoorn, Netherlands, 2005
Publish and Be Damned Travelling Library Archive (LOT/Bristol and Display/Prague), 2005
Publish and Be Damned Independent Publishing Fair, London, 2005
Independent Publishing Fair, Transition Gallery, London, 2005
In the Bag - Group show, Brixton Art Gallery, London, 2005
Studio Voltaire Artists Group Show, The Oval Theatre, London, 2005
A Fine Line - Group show, Euroart Gallery, London, 2004
Bread and Roses, Clapham, London, 2004
Look Again - Group show, Waterstone's, London, 2002
Group show, Candid Arts, London, 2001

publications / writing

tangent art zine, founder and editor

Runway Magazine, Issue 9, Sydney, Australia; 2007
riffRAG, Issue 2, New York, 2006
Gallery Reviews, Garageland Magazine, Issue 1, Transition Editions, London, 2006
Alternative Spaces and Practices (Interview with Elaina Arkool) London 2005
The Politics of Art by James Herbert, The San Diego Union Tribune, California, 3 July, 2005
Personal Weblogs, a Research Project (Interview with David Brake, London School of Economics) London 2005
Business Blogs, a Practical Guide, Ives, William and Watlington, Amanda, Boston 2005

education
BA (hons) Fine Art, University of the Arts (Central Saint Martins) 2004
HE Dip - Art and Design, New Art; University of the Arts (Chelsea) 2000
HE Dip - Art and Design, Painting and Drawing; University of the Arts (Chelsea) 1999

collections
Clerical Medical Investment Group and private collectors