karenrichards.net

Welcome

Karen Richards is an Australian textile artist and designer. Situated at the end of the Great Ocean Rd, Karen runs a studio textile business supplying short run hand woven textiles to local galleries. Karen also produces lavish machine embroidery which is exhibited around the south west. Karen is an RMIT Textile Design (Weave) Graduate and teaches in the Studio Textile program at South West TAFE.

Karen won the 2009 Australian Cotton Expo Machine Embroidery award for her piece Minhamite

For more information on weave or other studio textile courses go to www.swtafe.vic.edu.au

Upcoming Exhibitions

November 2009

Karen Richards and highly respected WA artist Annie Rawle are exhibiting new textile works entitled ' Seascape/Landscape' at Time and Tide Cafe Gallery in Port Fairy in October 2009 to coincide with the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival.

Karen is working on a solo exhibition of woven works exploring signalling to be exhibited locally early in 2010.

Past Exhibitions

Little Red

November 2008

Customs House Gallery

Gillies St Warrnambool

Travels in the Hat Machine

October 9th - November 9th 2008

Time and Tide Cafe Gallery
21 Thistle Pl, Port Fairy

Guest exhibitor with

Hurrah at Steps Gallery, Carlton

27th Sept - 12th Oct 2008

Hurrah are an established group of textile artists who have been exhibiting in Melbourne over the last 16 years. Originally drawn together by a passion for creative embroidery the group have diversified over the years into a variety of techniques and style.

Little, Big,Bad and Red

Time and Tide Gallery

21 Thistle Pl, Port Fairy

October - November 2007

Domestic Gothic

Customs House Gallery

Gillies St Warrnambool

November 2005

The Goods 2005, 2006, 2007

BeachHead Gallery

117 Fairy St Warrnambool