{"id":59,"date":"2021-02-09T19:19:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T19:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/karenkirkwood.com\/?page_id=59"},"modified":"2021-05-21T15:51:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T15:51:35","slug":"karen-kirkwood-artist","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/karenkirkwood.com\/?page_id=59","title":{"rendered":"INFO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-1 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"258\" src=\"https:\/\/karenkirkwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Yellow-stripes-detail-2-1024x258.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"400\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/karenkirkwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Yellow-stripes-detail-2-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/karenkirkwood.com\/?attachment_id=400\" class=\"wp-image-400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/karenkirkwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Yellow-stripes-detail-2-1024x258.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/karenkirkwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Yellow-stripes-detail-2-300x76.jpg 300w, https:\/\/karenkirkwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Yellow-stripes-detail-2-768x194.jpg 768w, https:\/\/karenkirkwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Yellow-stripes-detail-2-1536x387.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/karenkirkwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Yellow-stripes-detail-2-2048x516.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/karenkirkwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Yellow-stripes-detail-2-1200x303.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/karenkirkwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Yellow-stripes-detail-2-1860x469.jpg 1860w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-gray-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong><em>About<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-gray-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:12px\">Karen Kirkwood\u2019s work is inspired by the natural world and the elemental powers of nature. These often manifest in an abstract form with heavily textured and layered surfaces giving the works their own physicality. These layers are then contained and overlain by schematic linear elements to control the surface below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-gray-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:12px\">Earlier works were drawn from an interest in cosmology and the relationship between micro particles and the vast energies found in space. Thinking about the physical forces at work in the cosmos and their effect on the matter there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-gray-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong><em>Education<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-gray-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:12px\">BA Drawing and Painting, Edinburgh College of Art &#8211; 1992<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-gray-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:12px\">Master of Fine Art, Edinburgh College of Art &#8211;  1994<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-gray-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:12px\">PGCE Community Education, Strathclyde University &#8211; 2005<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-gray-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:12px\">BA Visual Communication and Digital Publishing (Merit), Abertay University, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-gray-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong><em>Scholarships\/awards\/residencies<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\" style=\"font-size:12px\">Scalloway Booth Residency, Shetland, April &#8211;  2010                                                                                                                                                                                                                       <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\" style=\"font-size:12px\">Hope Scott Trust, Award to publish catalogue &#8211; 2003<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\" style=\"font-size:12px\">Artist in Residence, Kunstcentrum, Leiden, Netherlands &#8211; 2002<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\" style=\"font-size:12px\">Edinburgh City Council funding towards exhibition costs &#8211; 1995<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\" style=\"font-size:12px\">Artist in Residence Repton School, Repton, Derbyshire &#8211;  1994 -1996<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\" style=\"font-size:12px\">Andrew Grant Bequest for post-graduate study &#8211; 1993<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\" style=\"font-size:12px\">John Floret Stone Bequest for post-graduate study &#8211; 1992<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\" style=\"font-size:12px\">Short listed for Miller Homes Award &#8211;  1992<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\" style=\"font-size:12px\">Exchange to Ecole des Beaux Arts, Quimper, France &#8211;  1991<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-gray-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong><em>Collections<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-gray-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:12px\">Mastercard, European Head Offices, Brussels  &#8211; 2008<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-gray-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:12px\">Mastercard Offices, London &#8211; 2007<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-gray-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:12px\">Geotecnics, Livingston &#8211; 2007<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-gray-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:12px\">Repton School, Repton, Derbyshire &#8211;  1996<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-gray-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:12px\">Art in Hospitals, Edinburgh NHS Trust &#8211;  1993<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-gray-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:12px\">Edinburgh College of Art &#8211; 1992<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator aligncenter is-style-wide\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Karen Kirkwood\u2019s work is inspired by the natural world and the elemental powers of nature. 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