Karen Christensen Art: Contemporary artist, Leigh-on-Sea and Southend-on-Sea based artist sculptor Karen Christensen painting exhibiting modern art sculpture
I am a contemporary artist based in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, UK. I have exhibited at the Royal Academy of Art, London; locally in Essex Open Exhibitions, as well as in my home town of Frederikssund, Denmark.
I am a Bricoleur - I use mainly found objects, creating pictures and sculptures. I am interested in the interaction between raw building/garden materials and everyday objects. My work is instinctive and playful. I create magical fantastical creatures, outlandish architectural models and humorous dioramas. In art, where works are constructed from various materials available or on hand the technique is called ‘Bricolage’. The term is borrowed from the French word Bricolage, from the verb bricoler, the core meaning in French being, "fiddle, tinker" and by extension, "to make creative and resourceful use of whatever materials are at hand (regardless of their original purpose)". In contemporary French the word is the equivalent of the English ‘Do It Yourself’, which also reflects in many of the materials I use in my sculptures, or Bricolages. Much of my works are sculptural pieces, of varying sizes, which can be situated either indoors or in the garden. I tend to construct the larger pieces 'on site', which adds a further dimension to the creative process. |
Jeg er en ‘Bricoleur’ – jeg bruger hovedsageligt objekter jeg har fundet, reklameret træ, metal og andet ‘skrald’ som forvandles til billeder og skulpturer. Jeg er interesseret I interaktionen mellem rå bygge/have materialer og hverdags objekter. Mine værker er instinktive og legende. Jeg skaber magiske figurer, arkitekturelle modeller og humoristiske dioramaer
Det franske udtryk der benyttes hvor værker er konstrueret af forskellige materialer indenfor rækkevidde er som teknik kaldet ‘Bricolage’. Udtrykket er taget fra det franske ord ‘bricolage’, fra verbet ‘bricoler’, hvis mening er ‘at gore, rode’ og endvidere ‘at gore kreativt brug af de materialer der er til hånde’ (uafhængigt af deres originale brug). I nyere fransk har ordet same betydning some ‘Do It Yourself’ på engelsk og ‘Gør det Selv’ på dansk, som også er reflekteret i mange af materialer jeg burger I mine skulpturer, eller Bricolager’. |
All images copyright Karen Christensen