Karen Birkin

Episode 12Karen Birkin
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Fractured self

Imagine yourself as a mosaic—each shard a memory, each fragment a story. Identity is fragmented, nonlinear, imperfect. Through collage, artists reassemble past and present into visual diaries, embracing the messiness of memory to reveal a self that is ever-evolving, resilient, and beautifully incomplete.

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Karen Birkin

Karen Birkin’s artistic vision, where personal identity, the natural world, and ancestral memory are inseparably intertwined. Rooted in the landscapes of the Welsh coast and shaped by Celtic mythology and animist beliefs, her work reflects a deep spiritual connection to the land. Birkin’s art captures the quiet vastness of small moments, offering a contemplative meditation on motherhood, transformation, and the fragile threads that bind us to one another and to the world around us.

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Love and Pain
Large puppy
Deep Sleep
Headland
Watching
Mother and baby
Mother and Child
Keeping watch
Emily with bandage
Cinnamon bunny
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