Karen Knight

Pronouns

She/Her

Artist Bio

Knight is a lesbian artist resident in Northwest Tasmania. Her early life was marked by an aversion to the then South African regime. Since migrating to Australia as a teenager, she has treasured the freedom and opportunity afforded her here.

Knight’s lifelong interest in art and music has, at times necessarily been subservient to her professional life in public policy and law. Now making art dominates her life.

When Knight moved to Tasmania in 2022, she established a reputation as an abstract painter. After experimenting with many techniques and mediums, she now favours processes of intuitive painting and optical mixing of vibrant paint colours, in acrylic and mixed media. Her art works explore identity, sexuality, migration, urban life, and outsider art.

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