Karen Casey b. 1956

  • Artist (Glass & metal Artist / Designer),
  • Artist (Screen Artist),
  • Artist (Installation Artist),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Digital Artist/Designer),
  • Artist (Video Artist),
  • Artist (Mixed Media Artist),
  • Artist (Industrial / Product Designer),
  • Artist (Painter)
Interdisciplinary Tasmanian Aboriginal artist who began exhibiting in 1987. Her work addresses personal, environmental, political and scientific themes.
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Related stub person groups
  • Australia Council for the Arts (associate of)
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Related collections
  • Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD (collected in)
  • Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Toowoomba, QLD (collected in)
  • Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Monash University, Melbourne, VIC (collected in)
  • Holmes a Court Collection, Perth, WA (collected in)
  • Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide, SA (collected in)
  • State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC (collected in)
  • Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, VIC (collected in)
  • Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth, WA (collected in)
  • Australian Embassy, Beijing, China (collected in)
  • Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe, USA (collected in)
  • Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, UK (collected in)
  • Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT (collected in)
  • Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA (collected in)
  • Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
Related recognitions
  • Professional Development Grant - Aboriginal Arts Board, Australia Council for the Arts (received)
  • City Square (received)
  • University of Melbourne (received)
  • Public art commission - Reconciliation Place, Canberra, ACT (received)
  • Melbourne Docklands (received)
  • 2006 Shortlisted - Lempriere Sculpture Award (received)
  • Gold Coast City Art Award (received)
  • New Work Grant - Hybrid Arts Board, Australia Council for the Arts (received)
  • Visual Arts Fellowship - Australia Council for the Arts (received)
  • Australian Heritage Commission's Indigenous Heritage Art Award (received)
Related events
  • Yarra arraY Sculpture Festival: 'Skinned' (exhibited at)
  • DBRef(u'xactivity', ObjectId('4da1c310b538b73d93025314')) (exhibited at)
  • Contemporary Aboriginal Art 1990: From Australia (exhibited at)
  • Alice Prize (exhibited at)
  • In Relief: Australian Wood Engravings, Woodcuts and Linocuts (exhibited at)
  • Tasmanian Tiger - The Mystery of the Thylacine (exhibited at)
  • Love Magic: Erotics and Politics in Indigenous Art (exhibited at)
  • 3rd Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (exhibited at)
  • The Art of Place: The Fifth Australian Heritage Commission National Indigenous Heritage Art Award (exhibited at)
  • Digital Ghosts (exhibited at)
  • Altitude: Drawing Dust (exhibited at)
  • Karen Casey (exhibited at)
  • Illusions - the Nature of Reality (exhibited at)
  • Awakenings (exhibited at)
  • Pulse - Multimedia Installation (exhibited at)
  • Casting Shadows/Drawing Light (exhibited at)
  • Art of Mind: Meditation in Alpha (exhibited at)
  • Art of Mind (exhibited at)
  • ? Lost & Found (exhibited at)
  • Aboriginal Art: A Continuing Tradition (exhibited at)
  • A Koori Perspective (exhibited at)
  • Aboriginal Australian Views in Print and Poster (exhibited at)