Invisible Women Series - Stars in her Eyes #2

Mixed media collage. Framed size 42cm x 32cm. Ready to hang -Black box frame, artist quality acid free white mat, perspex

Invisible Women Series #3 - Stars in her Eyes, celebrates the everyday and the ordinary. It speaks of unspoken hope and possibility.

Embracing and featuring the 'invisible' with colour and new life.
Hand embroidered and cut collage illuminated with recycled and vintage papers

Mixed Media Collage especially allows a reworking and pastiche to make a new story or 'paint' a new picture. I use the process and opportunities that collage allows and embrace using and recycling vintage papers and magazines - often vintage French fashion magazines and discarded books from the 1950's and 1960's - the ephemeral and the discarded. That which is fleeting or passing and impermanent and giving new life and form - a new story.

My smaller collage studies are often the first steps and stepping off points for larger works and new series. I am a painter by degree and really love the process of painting, however, I love paper. I adore the unlimited possibilies of using paper, mixed media, ink, paints, hand embroidery and the process of analogue collage, showcasing these historical marks of time with using vintage and recycled papers.

All artwork taken without perspex to minimise reflection - artworks subsequently look even better under the perspex!

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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 Waverley Art Prize, Bondi Pavillion
2026 Finalist Burwood Art Prize, Burwood
2026 Coupee Collage for World Collage Day - Belgium
2026 Finalist 'Remagine Art Prize' – Highly Commended
2025 Finalist Wollongong Art Prize , Wollongong Art Gallery
2025 Finalist Hazelhurst Art on Paper, Hazelhurst Art Gallery
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'