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The artist as unpaid mental health nurse

A Journey Exhibition is due to finish on 23rd September. My fingernails are sore from being bitten from weeks of worry and sleepless nights wondering if Portrait Of Ian Duncan Smith With Bandaged Nose has been sold, and no notification […]

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Norway trip

It’s been a while since I started this blog – I’ve had some trouble keeping updates on a-n, however, changing my email address may have helped! Catrine had invited me to Nordland to visit for the Peace Painting Project. The […]

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Two by Two

  • Archive
  • Venue:
    All Hallows by the Tower
  • From:
    September 27, 2016
  • To:
    October 06, 2016
  • Location:
    London
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Closing the Curtains

I’m leaving New York tonight to return to England and today isn’t quite the flurry of meet ups and activities that I had planned. The Chelsea Manhattan bombing last night combined with general New Yorkers busy-ness meant that several of […]

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Reconnecting

Wow… this week has been a busy one, out training and attending meetings in preparation for launching Your Turn, our little Community Interest Company. Our company registration will be complete and ready to roll by the new year… new year, […]

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Art Activism, Success and Aging.

Anyone with the drive, focus, energy and passion to make it in New York, deserves kudos. If they keep a sense of of morality, self and spirit intact, all the more power to them. This is a driven city, and […]

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As I Went Walking

Seeing the Work of my art-hero, Bill Traylor, in actuality at Newark Museum. Warhol at the Newark Museum Unknown artist, probably carved for a movie theatre premier of ‘King Kong’. Purvis Young at Newark Museum Newark street art

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Orkney journal now online

The complete journal of my four weeks in Orkney is now online on www.karenwallis.co.uk. Please note, this is merely a chronological record of images made during the residency.  The real work now begins – making artwork from the sketches. Another update next Friday

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Technical difficulties

Although I have now completed an online version of my Orkney journal, I am having difficulties in getting it to work online. Another update will follow as soon as the problem is resolved. In the meantime, here is a drawing […]

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Battleship building
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India

For a three months residency, the Something Useful Project supports me at the Fine Arts department of the Veer Narmad South Gujarat University in the city of Surat, found in the North western state of Gujarat in India.

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Being an artist. What is it for?

I am an artist who work mainly with wool and crochet. In this blog, I would like to explore recurrent themes in my work such as protection vs imprisonment as well as my relationship with the suburban non-traditionally artistic environment in which I live and work.

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