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Bio

Karen Purple lives and works in Oxfordshire, UK. She has a first-class (hons) degree in Fine Art and has participated in a 2 year correspondence course with Turps Banana (2016-18). She has exhibited widely in the UK and was selected for the Discerning Eye and the Threadneedle Prize at the Mall Galleries, London, and the RWA, Bristol. She has had solo exhibitions with Hemingway Art and other local galleries as well as being represented at the Affordable Art Fair. Her work is held in private collections in the UK and overseas as well as a collection with Art UK. Work has developed from repeated residencies and research trips to Suffolk and Ireland. This has ongoing relevance as the places hold strong personal and emotional attachments. She joined Wilcote Studios in 2016 and is currently working from a studio offsite.

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Work

2023

  • Wilcote Art, group show

  • Residency, Suffolk coast

  • Research and Development, Iveragh Peninsula, Ireland

2022

  • Residency,Cill Rialiag, Ireland

  • Wilcote Art, group show

2021

  • Darl-e and the Bear, Wilcote Art Group Show, Woodstock

  • Magdalen Road Studios, HopeSprings Eternal, Oxford

  • BranchArts, In the Studios, Wilcote, Oxfordshire

  • Zuleika Gallery, Art from the Heart, Woodstock

2020

  • Campden Gallery, group, Gloucestershire

  • Linden Hall Gallery, Lockdown online, Kent

  • Wilcote Art, open studios

Group

  • 2019 Oxford Open, Brickwork, Jam Factory, Oxford

  • 2018 Wilcote Art Gallery, Hidden Light, Wilcote, Oxfordshire

  • 2018 Open Studios, Hunts Copse, Finstock, Oxfordshire

  • 2017 Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, with Wychwood Art, Deddington

  • 2017 Open Studios, HuntsCopse, Finstock, Oxfordshire

  • 2016 Magdalen Road Studios, Off-Site, DIs locate, Oxford

  • 2016 West Oxon Arts, Mini, Bampton

  • 2016 Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, with Wychwood Art, Deddington

  • 2015 Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London

  • 2015 Ovada, Oxford, Seven Counties Open

  • 2015 Kunsthuis Gallery, Yorkshire

  • 2014 Kunsthuis Gallery, Group Show, Yorkshire

  • 2014 One Street Gallery, Bryant and Keeling Prize, shortlisted, Bucks

  • 2014 Oxford Botanic Garden, 22 March-26 May, The Breaking of Tulips

  • 2013 RWA, Drawn,Bristol

  • 2013 03 Gallery, Oxford

  • 2012 Mall Galleries, The Threadneedle Prize, London

  • 2012 RWA, 160th Open, Bristol

  • 2012 Wells and Mendip Museum, WAC, Somerset

  • 2012 Filament 14, Oxford

  • 2011 RWA, 159th Open, Bristol

  • 2011 Magdalen Road Studios, Oxford

  • 2011 03 Gallery, Oxford

  • 2009 Oxford University Arboretum

  • 2009 O3 Gallery, Oxford

  • 2009 Notfamousyet, Oxford

  • 2008 Modern Art, Oxford

  • 2007 Beldam Gallery, Brunel University

  • 2005 Affordable Art Fair, Battersea

  • 2004 Modern Art Oxford

Solo

  • 2015 Filament 14, Oxford, OpenStudio

  • 2014 Pennwood House, joint exhibition with Crabby Taylor

  • 2012 Pennwood House, Oxfordshire

  • 2011 Pennwood House, Oxfordshire

  • 2010 North Wall, Oxford

  • 2010 Oxford University Arboretum

  • 2008 Pennwood House, Oxfordshire

  • 2007 03 Gallery, Oxford

  • 2006 Ovada,Oxford

Residencies

  • 2017 Brison's Veor, Cape Cornwall

  • 2016 Brison's Veor, Cape Cornwall

  • 2015 Filament 14, Oxford, Drawing Residency

  • 2015 Gower Peninsular

  • 2013 The Lifeboat Studio, Porthleven

  • 2010 The Turbine House, Reading

  • 2009/10 Oxford UniversityArboretum

Collections

Galleries

  • artuk.org

  • HemingwayArt, Cassington, Oxford

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