Fish out of water - Series #2

In a series of four collages - Fish out of water - is made with recycled vintage fashion magazines , books and paper.

I finished my fine arts degree with a major in painting but embraced a more intimate and personal process with small 3D art works , encompassing needlework and collage and domestic items to rework and pastiche a new meaning.

I adore the process of collage and embrace using and recycling old vintage papers and magazines - currently vintage french fashion magazines and discarded books from the 1950's and 60's - the ephemeral and the discarded. That which is fleeting/passing/transitory and impermanent and giving a new life and form.

This body of work specifically looks at consumerism /consumption and waste and the destruction of our environment with one use consumables.

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Karen Coull  (born Sydney 1961)

BA Visual Arts UWS 1992

A recipient of a City of Sydney Work/Live Studio Residency, Karen has exhibited in solo and group shows in Australia, UK, USA and Europe over the past 30 years.

She is represented in a number of public Australian, UK and USA collections and private collections in Australia,  Europe, USA and UK.

Coull is passionate about the often marginalised, domestic/traditionally female art practices with a strong emphasis on analogue collage using vintage and recycled paper. Her current focus is on her journey of ageing and the invisibility of older women.

SELECTED recent exhibitions/prizes
2026 Finalist Burwood Art Prize
2026 Coupee Collage for World Collage Day - Belgium
2026 Finalist 'Remagine Art Prize' – Highly Commended
2025 Finalist Wollongong Art Prize
2025 Finalist Hazelhurst Art on Paper
2024 The Kanyer Art Collection and Historical Archive of Collage, Curator Freya Gowrley, PhD, Bristol University, UK
2024 Finalist Sunshine Coast National Art Prize
2024 The Views From Here - work from the Casula Powerhouse Collection, Yellamundie - Liverpool City Library, Liverpool
2024 Finalist 'Remagine Art Prize'
2023 Finalist Woollahra Small Sculpture Award
2023 Finalist 'Fishers Ghost Art Award'
2023 Finalist National Sunshine Coast National Art Prize
2023 “Collage”. BOXX gallery, Washington
2023 “A 45 Year Love Affair with Art: The Doug + Laurie Kanyer Art Collection. Tieton Arts and Humanities, Washington
2022 'Waverley Art Prize' - Drawing Prize Winner
2022 Finalist 'Fishers Ghost Art Award'
2022 Finalist 'Hornsby Art Prize'
2022 'Gosford Art Prize' - Highly Commended
2022 'Remagine Art Prize' - Peoples Choice
2021 Finalist ''Gosford Art Prize'
2021 Finalist ''Fishers Ghost Art Award'
2021 Finalist 'Biennial 'Banyule Award for Works on Paper'
2021 Finalist ''Bluethumb Art Prize'
2021 Finalist ''Waverley Art Prize'
2021 Finalist ''Remagine'
2021 'SPACE YZ'  Campbelltown Art Centre curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham
2021 Collage. Seville, Spain
2020 Finalist ''Meroogal Women's Art Prize',
2019'Finalist 'NOW Contemporary Art Prize'