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By Karen Mayo There are moments in life when something shifts quietly. Not with fireworks or grand announcements, but with a simple realisation that the time has come to begin again. For me, that moment arrived recently when I secured a studio space in the heart of my local arts community. After years of teaching, supporting students, raising a family, and helping others discover their creative voice, I am finally returning to my own. The funny thing is that this wasn't part

Mondrian, Piet. Evolution. 1911. Oil on canvas. Kunstmuseum Den Haag. “The space between inner feeling and faith is only that you consciously decide to step into the latter once you learn to “trust” the feeling, and then trust yourself”. Karen Mayo Today, something unexpected happened. In the middle of researching the methodology behind my artistic practice, I remembered a book: Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky. What surprised me wasn't simply remembering

Recently, while revisiting work created during my Master's in Public Art, Karen Mayo reflected on a project called Gateways. This work involved installing projectors in stairwells and overlooked spaces throughout Melbourne. The projectors displayed moving images of the sky and drifting clouds in areas where light and openness had long since disappeared behind concrete and steel. The Simple Intervention The intervention was straightforward. A dark stairwell. A projection of th

A New Series of Work One of the things I love most about creating a new body of work is that you rarely know where it will lead when you begin. The works that eventually become most important are often the ones that start with a simple question—one that quietly follows you for months, sometimes years, before revealing where it wants to go. For me, Evolution began with a question: How do we experience transformation while it is happening? Change surrounds us. It shapes our liv