Karen Mathison

Karen Andrea Mathison was born in Ormskirk, Lancashire in September 1967.

Worked for 23 years as a Project Manager for a Military Defence company until taking voluntary redundancy to pursue a career as an artist.

She graduated from Blackburn College in 2017 with a First-Class BA Hons degree in Photographic Media. In 2018 she was diagnosed with womb cancer but still managed to complete her PGCE the same year and is currently studying her MA at the University of Central Lancashire.

Mathison has been a wedding, portrait, editorial and commercial photographer since 2009. Initially she centred her personal practice primarily around documentary photography however her personal photographic practice now focuses on the representation and the familiar of local communities and places, reflecting on society from varying points including change and loss. She likes to experiment with hybrid analogue and digital photographic techniques to produce her works.

She likes to collaborate with individuals & communities in terms of representation and place, questioning how co-authorship and produced photography, creates greater narratives and representations of our shared society and place.

Currently she is working on a number of long-...

MA Photography – TBA – Sept 2019
PGCE –Grade 1 Outstanding. – June 2018
BA Photographic Media -1st Class Hons
FdA Photographic Media – Distinction
UAL Extended Level 3 Diploma Art & Design - Distinction

Successful Open Call upcoming Exhibitions
Festival of Making, Industrial Exhbition - June 2019
D-Contemporary Gallery, 23 Grafton Street, Mayfair, London - May thou July 2019

Previous Exhibitions
Hanover Project Gallery, Preston, April 2019
Prism Contemporary Gallery, Blackburn, April 2019
Five Ways of Seeing Exhibition, The Storey Gallery, Lancaster 2017
Three Degrees Showcase, The Making Rooms, Blackburn 2017.
Blackburn College BA Show, Victoria Buildings, 2017
Blackburn College BA Show, Blackburn Cathedral, 2016
Blackburn is Open, 2014
Exmoor Breed Show, Exmoor, 2014.