Brook, Andrew, et al., Nirin: 22nd Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Biennale of Sydney, 2020
→Leigh, Robb, et al., Monster Theatres, Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2020
→Baum, Tina, Defying Empire: The third National Indigenous Art Triennial, Canberra, National Gallery of Australia, 2017
Karla Dickens, SOS, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane, November-December 2020
→Karla Dickens, Warrior Woman, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Melbourne Art Fair, Southbank Arts Precinct, August 2018
→Karla Dickens, Lucky Bastards and Fast Food, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane, April-May 2018
Australian Wiradjuri installation artist.
Karla Dickens is a multidisciplinary artist of Wiradjuri, Irish and German descent. Since graduating from the National Art School in Sydney in 2000 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts – and having since made Bundjalung country in northern New South Wales her home – she has dedicated herself to her art, a decision she says she owes in large part to her daughter. Unlike many artist mothers of her generation, K. Dickens is a loud and proud single mother, a stance from which she draws much strength. Her artwork unfurls the cross-cultural experiences that have shaped her identity. A self-described visual storyteller, she believes artists’ propensity to respond to the world around them brings them into contact with the political and social issues of the day and allows them to break the silence, to carve out spaces for truth telling and confront issues others won’t, like systemic sexual violence against Indigenous women.
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