Karla Dickens :: biography at :: at Design and Art Australia Online

Karla Dickens b. 1967

Artist (Painter),
Artist (Sculptor),
Artist (Installation Artist)

Karla Dickens is a Wiradjuri artist whose work explores the themes of politics, love, sex and the environment. Karla trained at the National Art School in Darlinghurst and won the Bundjalung Art Award at Lismore Regional Gallery in 2006. After the NSW floods of 2022, fellow artist Blak Douglas’s portrait of her as “Moby Dickens” was awarded the Archibald Prize

Tags: Archibald Prize

exhibited at

Future Feminist Archive Report

Date: 16 April 2016 - 7 May 2016
Place: The Cross Art Projects, 8 Llankelly Place, Kings Cross, Sydney, 2011, Australia
Type: Exhibition
Tags: Feminist, The Cross Art Projects, Future Feminist Archive, Contemporary Art and Feminism
Website: http://www.futurefeministarchive.com.au/the-archive/2015-symposia/ffa-report

exhibited at

Hereby Make Protest

Date: 2014
Place: CarriageWorks, Eveleigh, Sydney, NSW
Description: Exhibition of new works by Karla Dickens, Nicole Foreshew, and Jacob Nash evoking the spirit of Aboriginal activists.
Type: Exhibition
Website: http://www.carriageworks.com.au/?page=Event&event=Hereby-Make-Protest-19036

exhibited at

Feminage - the logic of feminist collage

Date: 2 August 2012 - 15 September 2012
Place: The Cross Art Projects
Description: Feminage frames collage as one aspect of the diverse legacy of feminist art practice. In the 1970s, informed by feminism, gay rights and conceptual art, women artists created a logic of collage, together with a feminine subjectivity composed from alien forms, the domestic and child’s-play associations. Collage’s dynamic, chimerical logic of fragmentation and suture continues to open new angles on sexual, post-colonial and cultural identities.
Type: Exhibition
Tags: Collage, Feminist, The Cross Art Projects
Website: http://crossart.com.au/home/index.php/archive/169-feminage-the-logic-of-feminist-collage