Karen Brock is a Sydney-based painter working from her Northern Beaches studio. Her practice centres on familiar neighbourhood scenes at transitional times of day — dusk, dawn, and early evening — where subtle shifts of light and atmosphere transform the everyday. In 2025, she was awarded the Residency Award at the Lethbridge Landscape Prize was awarded 2nd Prize in the Waverley Woollahra 9 x 5 Art Prize and received a Highly Commended in the Lethbridge Small Scale Art Award. In 2024, her work was recognised as a Finalist in the National Emerging Art Prize, the Lethbridge Landscape Prize, and the Lethbridge Small Scale Art Award. She has presented her continuing and developing series of Nocturnes at The Other Art Fair for the past two years.

 

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2025

2nd Prize WWAS 9 x 5 Exhibition

Awarded Residency Prize Lethbridge Gallery

Finalist in the Lethbridge Small Scale Art Prize

Finalist in the Lethbridge Landscape Prize

Selected to Exhibit at The Other Art Fair SYD May 2025

 

2024

Selected as a finalist in the National Emerging Art Prize

Selected as a finalist in the Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Prize

Selected as a finalist in the Lethbridge Landscape Prize

Selected to Exhibit at The Other Art Fair SYD May 2024

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