Karen Wicks

Karen Wicks is a UK artist based in the Midlands. Her printmaking practice is inspired by derelict buildings and captures the presence and intrigue of these abandoned structures using drawing, intaglio and lithographic print techniques.

The Japanese notion of ‘wabi-sabi’ is central to her art practice, which celebrates beauty that is imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. Her work explores low-fi home print techniques and this latest ‘Looking Beyond’ series explores the concept of multiples in ‘print’: through combining charcoal drawing with polyester plate lithography, which is then developed into a risograph stencil image to further erode the image to represent the fading memory of place.

Winner of the Banks Mill Studios Award (2023)