Art2Muse. Katrina Hampton. Director Art2Muse Gallery

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1 Art2Muse A vibrant art gallery Located in the heart of Double Bay, Art2Muse Gallery attracts locals, designers, national and international art lovers who can also view and purchase artworks online. Established in 2001 by Katrina Hampton, Art2Muse Gallery represents a diverse range of artworks from 45 established artists at an affordable price. The gallery has been operating in Double Bay since 2008 with an exciting program of regular exhibitions and provides ongoing personalised service. In November 2014 Art2Muse Gallery was the first Australian gallery to be invited to participate in the Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair in Turkey. We offer a home consultation service to advise on artworks. An initial visit to your home or office will include photographing the space and discussing your preferences. We will then produce a catalogue of recommended artworks superimposed on your walls as a preview before trying the pieces in your home. The $150 consultation fee is then deducted from your first art purchase. Here is a selection of available artworks by Karen Barbouttis. Please feel free to contact us for high resolution photographs and catalogues of artworks you are interested in and to discuss your requirements. Katrina Hampton Director Art2Muse Gallery Katrina Hampton Art2Muse Gallery New South Head Rd Double Bay Sydney P. O. Box 211 Woollahra NSW 1350 Australia Phone: art2muse@gmail.com

2 Karen Barbouttis Born in Sydney, Karen Barbouttis has an artistic practice that has developed out of a principally self-taught tradition. While completing a degree in Psychology, Karen sought employment at the Hanna Barbera Studios in Sydney where she was trained in animation, as an animator. This was a field in which she continued to work over the next twenty five years, working in various studios in both Sydney and Melbourne, such as The Disney Studios, Yoram Gross Studios, Burbank, Unlimited Energee, Energee Entertainment, and Mickey Duck Studios. Karen also worked in concept art, creating and designing both finished art and merchandise for companies in the United States, such as Harveytoons, Warner Brothers, and Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. Working in book illustration, one of her collaborations with Dr Sandra Cabot resulted in a series of books that made the best-selling lists across Australia. Always working in the artistic field, but never engaging in any artistic practice of her own, Karen enrolled in the National Art School in Sydney in She graduated in 2010 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting Major, with Distinction, but it is the discipline of drawing to which she has returned to explore. Deferring an acceptance of enrolment in Honors Drawing at the National Art School, the year of experimentation and exploration developed into a valuable learning experience. In 2011, the selection of Karen s work as Winner of The Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing was a career highlight. Karen s work investigating the themes of life in death in her body of work, The Museum of Life, has developed and grown to encompass the themes of Life and Death in Life and Death. Although her work with pencil on paper will still be explored, Karen is working to develop these themes in the medium of painting. I draw what I see The relationship of line, space, and place creates the dialogue that I choose to communicate with the viewer of my works. I enjoy the immediacy and simplicity of pencil on paper. That is the beauty of The Drawing. It can be portable, disposable, spontaneous, deliberate, temporary, permanent. a quick sketch that captures the gesture or a detailed drawing that pushes the essence of the gesture to make it a detailed character analysis of the subject. I walk every day, everywhere. I see things that I want to express as a drawing on paper. I enjoy observing animals and their interactions with their environment, with each other, and with the artist as the observer. Pencil and paper are always on hand to record what I see. That is the beauty of the materials. Their immediacy and availability allow for the spontaneous and the more detailed work. Pencil on paper is my drawing practice and the starting point to all my artistic practice.

3 Curriculum Vitae Education 2010 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting Major), National Art School, Sydney 1985 Bachelor of Arts (Psychology Major), University of NSW, Sydney Professional Experience Illustration, Signum Graphics, Sydney Character Design, Concept and Finished Art, Website Animation, Energee Entertainment, Sydney! Illustration and Book Illustration, Signum Graphics, Sydney. Book Illustration, Murray David Publishing, Sydney Concept Art and Finished Illustration, VB Concepts, Sydney Cartoon Animation, The Disney studios, Sydney 1991 Cartoon Animation, Unlimited Energee, Sydney 1990 Storyboards, Character design, Animation, Yoram Gross Studios, Sydney Illustration and Cartoon Animation, Burbank Studios, Sydney Tee- Shirt design, Everything Australian Stores, Sydney 1989 Cartoon Animation, Mickey Duck Studios, Melbourne Cartoon Animation, Hanna Barbera Studios, Sydney Exhibitions 2015 Art2Muse Gallery, Double Bay, Sydney 2015 Lemnos the Greek Dimension in the Anzac Centenary, an Exhibition presented by the Embassy of Greece in Australia, Canberra In Red 100 years from the Battle of Gallipoli. Ochra Gallery, Thessoloniki, Greece Creatures. Solo exhibition, S.G. art gallery, Athens, Greece Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing. PLC Sydney Sydney Childrens Hospital Spring Exhibition. Sydney Childrens Hospital, Randwick Flanagan Art Prize, Ballarat Flora and Fauna. Syndicate at Danks, Sydney 2013 Wilson Visual Arts Award, Lismore 2013 St Spyridon College The Arts Exhibition Invited Artist, Sydney 2013 Waverly Art Prize, Bondi-Waverly School of Arts, Sydney 2013 All Creatures Great and Small.Solo exhibition, Art2Muse, Sydney Nurturing Hellenic Heritage the Australian Way. Hellenic Lyceum Sydney, Parliament House, Sydney Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing. PLC, Sydney 2012 The Mortimore Prize. Sydney arc Yinnar Biennial Art Prize Hunters hill Art Exhibition. Sydney 2012 Animals Exhibition. Syndicate at Danks, Sydney 2012 Drawings from The Animal Walk. St Vincents Hospital, Sydney BSG Works on Paper Prize. Fitzroy Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing 2011 Drawings from The Museum of Life. St Vincents Hospital, Sydney Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing. PLC, Sydney Selected Student Graduate drawing Exhibition. National Art School, Sydney National Art School Graduate Show, Sydney Exhibition of Selected Student Sketchbooks. Stairwell gallery, National Art School, Sydney.

4 2009 A Week on Cockatoo., Selected Student Work from the National Art School, Cockatoo Island, Sydney Selected Collections National Art School Student Collection, Sydney Pymble Ladies College, Sydney St Vincents Hospital, Sydney Commissions and Private collections Awards 2014 Finalist, Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing 2013 Finalist, Flanagan Art Prize 2013 Finalist, Wilson Visual Art Award 2013 Finalist, Waverly Art Prize 2013 Finalist, Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing 2012 Finalist, Highly Commended, arc Yinnar Biennial Drawing Prize 2012 Finalist, The Mortimore Art Prize 2012 Finalist, Commended, Hunters Hill Art Prize 2012 Finalist, BSG Works on paper prize 2012 Finalist, Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing 2011 Winner, Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing Bibliography 2014 The K- magazine, September. Athens, 2014 clickatlife.gr, October. Athens 2014 Athinorama, October. Athens 2014 Art22.gr,October, Athens artandlife.gr, October. Athens artmag.gr, October. Athens The Cosmos Newspaper, April. Sydney Art Monthly, #238, April. Sydney Australian Art Collector, February 2011 Imprint Magazine, Winter, Vol 46, Number 2. Sydney

5 Ruby the Anti-Austerity Dog, Syntagma Greece $1,500 Pencil on paper framed, 78cm x 58cm

6 Nikos and Pavlos, Syntagma Square, Athens Greece $1,500 Pencil on paper framed, 87cm x 57cm

7 As the Shadows Pass, Syntagma Square, Athens, Greece $1,500 Pencil on paper framed, 57cm x 78cm

8 Owl I, Attika Park Zoo, Athens Greece $1,500 Pencil on paper framed, 78cm x 57cm

9 English Staffordshire, Tropicana Cafe, Coogee $1,500 Pencil on paper framed, 110cm x 48cm

10 Sunday walk in Glyfada $1,000 Pencil on paper framed, 78cm x 57cm

11 Island Pup, Mykonos, Greece $1,000 Pencil on paper framed, 78cm x 57cm

12 Zeus, Tre Pani Artisan Bakery, Dover Heights $1,000 Pencil on paper framed, 38cm x 87cm

13 Dalmatians waiting for Judging $1,500 Pencil on paper framed, 70cm x 89cm

14 Waiting for the Judges $1,500 Pencil on paper framed, 70cm x 89cm

15 The Indian Myna Birds of North Bondi Beach Surf Club Bondi Beach, Sydney $2,000 Pencil on paper framed in reclaimed window, 75cm x 57cm

16 Birds of the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney (panel 1) $3,000 Pencil & mixed media on paper framed, 95cm x 145cm