My concerns as a professional artist practicing within an artistic context are people orientated and explore challenging issues that are concealed away from the public eye. Working mostly in photography and more recently video and sound my work to date has explored mental health, domestic violence and intimacy in the third age. I am very interested in the unseen, exploring behind the scenes, addressing a private moment and trying to express it in a way that is moving and non-judgemental. My strengths are research and personal involvement with the subject before the process of making work. These play a strong role within the way I work and allows me the time to aesthetically respond to what is visually required. My approach is one of attention to detail in which the final piece conjures up underlying emotions that demand a response.
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Karen Brett, born Bristol, England, 1968. Lives in Bristol, lectures photography in Bristol and Wales.
EDUCATION
1998 First Class BA (Hon’s) Documentary Photography, UWCN, Newport.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2000-01 Better Safe than “Sorry”, Acorn Theatre, Penzance.
2001-05 Waiting Rooms, Hotbath Gallery and currently touring various Health Centres and Hospitals in Bath & Bristol.
2003 – 05 The Myth of Sexual loss – Ffotogallery @ Turner House, Penarth, Wales,
2003 Trace, Weymouth,
2003, Folly gallery, Lancaster,
2004. The Michael Tippet Centre, Bath, 2005.
2005 – The Myth of Sexual loss, Le Mois de la Photo a Montreal, La Centrale, Montreal, Canada.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1999 Agoraphobia, Project Ability, Glasgow.
2000 Just Another Day, Ffotogallery, Cardiff and touring.
2000 Places of Life, La Cartaia, Prato, Tuscany.
2000 “West” 1st Ffotobiennale, Ffotogallery, Cardiff, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea / Aberystwyth Arts Centre / Wrexham Arts Centre.
2001 In Theory, Dis-used building, Bath.
2003 Changes: Memory Palette – Group exhibition, North East Somerset Arts, Radstock Community Centre.
2004 East International, Norwich.
COMPETITIONS
1998 Director’s Choice, Ffotogallery, Cardiff.
2000 West-Ffotobiennale, Third prize, Ffotogallery, Cardiff.
2004 East International, Norwich.
AWARDS
2000 European Award for Women Photographers, 1st Prize, Self Imprisonment , Prato, Tuscany.
2001 Melhuish Fine Art Award, awarded by South West Arts for the continuation of personal work.
2003 Awards for Artists, Arts Council of England.
SELECTED PUBLISHED WORK
2000 Places of Life, Catalogue, Dryphoto Arte Contemporanea, Tuscany, Italy. 2000 West, Ffotogallery, Cardiff.
2001 Big Issue, Bath & Bristol. 2003 Nextlevel, Photographic art and issues publication, London.
2004 East International, Catalogue.
2005 Image & Imagination, Catalogue, Le Mois de la Photo a Montreal.
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