About

Karen Stephens is an Australian artist based in Winton, Qld whose interdisciplinary practice examines the politics of the gaze and distorts structures of seeing through contemporary landscape and portraiture painting anchored in a regional context. Stephens completed a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) from Griffith University’s Queensland College of Art (2017). Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally and acquired by institutions. Stephens recently won the Flying Arts Alliance’s Queensland Regional Art Awards ‘Remote Artist Award’ with artwork ‘Looking for the Pink Opal’ which is currently touring Queensland galleries.