Karen Prakhoff Rickman is a Perth based contemporary artist. She completed a Master of Creative Arts at Curtin University in 2006. Rickman has exhibited in Perth and Melbourne, been a finalist in numerous art awards and winner of the City of Melville Art Awards 2021 (acquisitive).
Her recent practice explores the idea of the palimpsest landscape as evocation. Monoprinting (unique state prints) is ideally suited to this deliberate overwriting of images with each layer simultaneously creating and denying form. This process is integral to both the aesthetics and meaning of the work - it speaks of memory, time, loss and renewal.
We are inextricably linked with nature and specific aspects of landscapes resonate with our memories and thoughts. Rickman creates her prints in her studio from her photos of landscape fragments divorced from their context, and the memories they evoke. The square format of much of her work echoes that of the traditional Polaroids she initially used for inspiration, now supplemented with iPhone images.
Rickman works on 2 or 3 prints at a time, exploring an idea and creating links through the repetition of elements via ghost prints, mirror images, and torn paper or bark stencils. She draws into or applies ink with rollers, brushes, rags and cotton buds. There is deliberate oscillation between surface and depth; between marks on paper and spatial illusion.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Standing Still, Lost Eden Creative, Dwellingup, WA
2023
Tracing the Vanishing, West End Art Space, Melbourne
2022
Site Unseen (with Marina van Leeuwen), Earlywork, WA
2021
Featured Artist, NEXTDOOR, WA
2020
Fugitive Fragments, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
2019
Soliloquy, Nyisztor Studio, WA
2019
Altered States, Mundaring Arts Centre, WA
2016
Liminal Spaces, Showcase Gallery Central Institute of Technology, WA
2006
All That Is Solid, Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Never Alone: Human, Animal, Artist, Rockingham Arts Centre, WA
2023
Baigup Wetlands: Creative by Nature, Ellis House Art Centre, WA
2023
Paper, Nyisztor Studio, WA
2021
Solastalgia, Lost Eden Creative, WA
2021
Modern Holiday Exhibition, Kamile Gallery, WA
2021
Rock, Paper, Scissors, Red Gallery, Melbourne
2020
Modern Holiday Exhibition, Kamile Gallery, WA
2020
NEXTDOOR 24/7 art venue, WA
2019
Scene 2019, Nyisztor Studio, WA
2018
Scene 2018, Nyisztor Studio, WA
2004
I think I see…, Curtin University, WA
AWARDS
2023
Finalist, Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award, WA
2023
Finalist, Minnawarra Art Awards, WA
2022
Finalist, Melville Art Awards, WA
2022
Finalist, Belmont Art Awards, WA
2022
Finalist, Minnawarra Art Awards, WA
2021
Overall Winner (Acquisitive), City of Melville Art Awards, WA
2021
Finalist, City of Stirling Art Awards, WA
2021
Finalist, Minnawarra Art Awards, WA
2020
Finalist, City of Busselton Art Award, WA
2020
Finalist, City of Bayswater Community Art Awards, WA
2019
Finalist, City of Melville Art Awards, WA
2019
Finalist, Minnawarra Art Awards, WA
2018
Salon des Refusé, Perth Royal Art Prize, WA
2018
Finalist, Minnawarra Art Awards, WA
2006
Invited artist, Joondalup Art Award, WA
2004
Finalist, Fremantle Print Award, WA
1999
Winner (Acquisitive), Printmakers Association of WA Award
COLLECTIONS
City of Melville, WA
Eden Floreat Apartments, WA (11 prints)
