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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

received

Recipient - Indigenous Arts Fellowship, Arts Northern Rivers and Rivers of Art Aboriginal Corporation

Dates

2010

Recognition type

Award

Description

updated 2010/09/1

Note

Winner
received

Parliament of NSW Aboriginal Art Prize

Dates

2009

Recognition type

Award

Description

Finalist

Note

Finalist
received

NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service Aboriginal Art Award

Dates

2007

Recognition type

Award

Description

Past-Present-Future NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service Northern Rivers Region

Note

Winner
received

Bundjalung Art Award

Dates

2006

Recognition type

Award

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Karla Dickens b. 1967

Recipient - Indigenous Arts Fellowship, Arts Northern Rivers and Rivers of Art Aboriginal Corporation

Parliament of NSW Aboriginal Art Prize

NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service Aboriginal Art Award

Bundjalung Art Award

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