Karen Sewell is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, working across sculpture, installation, photography, painting, sound, scent, and light. Her practice weaves together metaphysical inquiry and ecological sensitivity, creating works that explore the unseen energies within land, light, and form. Through a language of symbolic and sensory experience, she invites reflection on our relationship to both the Earth and the intangible.
She holds a Master of Fine Arts (Hons) from Whitecliffe College (2016) and has exhibited widely in New Zealand and internationally. Career highlights include Luminary I Luminare at Palazzo Bembo, Venice (a parallel exhibition of the Venice Biennale), and recognition with awards as a 2024 Molly Morpeth Canaday finalist and award winner, as well as recipient of the Premier Award in the Waitakere Trust Art Award.
Sewell’s work often inhabits both conventional and alternative spaces, offering immersive experiences that act as contemplative thresholds between the material and the immaterial, the earthly and the cosmic.
Karen lives and works in Auckland Aotearoa I New Zealand.
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