Featured Artist: Karla Dickens

Karla Dickens is one of the incredible artists featured in our current exhibition GUWAYU: For All Time, showing now at Murrook Culture Centre.

Based in Goonellabah, Lismore, on Bundjalung Country, Karla is a cross-cultural Wiradjuri woman whose art is as powerful as it is personal. With a distinctive voice and style, she brings a dark humour to her unflinching explorations of race, gender, and injustice - often revealing raw pain and hard truths through her work.

Born on Gadigal Country (Sydney) in 1967, Karla studied at the National Art School, where she focused on painting and collage. Since then, she has become a highly respected and widely collected artist, with works held in major state and national collections. Her work has been included in landmark exhibitions such as Defying Empire: 3rd National Indigenous Triennial (2017) and NIRIN, the 22nd Biennale of Sydney (2020). The standout work she created for NIRIN, titled A Dickensian Circus, now forms part of the Art Gallery of New South Wales collection.

Karla’s artistic journey has also taken her across the country and around the world through residencies in Cape York, Alice Springs, Java, and Italy. She has contributed to numerous public and community-based art projects across Australia - from Redfern to Brewarrina.

Don’t miss the chance to experience Karla Dickens’ powerful work in GUWAYU: For All Time, on now at Murrook!