Karen Brock
Karen Brock is a Sydney-based painter working from her Northern Beaches studio. Her practice centres on familiar neighbourhood scenes at transitional times of day — dusk, dawn, and early evening — when subtle shifts of light and atmosphere quietly transform the everyday. These moments form the basis of her ongoing Nocturne series where place is approached through memory, repetition, and attentive observation.
In 2025, Brock was awarded the Residency Award at the Lethbridge Landscape Prize. The residency provided an extended period of focused studio time, allowing her to deepen her engagement with nocturnal
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Karen Brock is a Sydney-based painter working from her Northern Beaches studio. Her practice centres on familiar neighbourhood scenes at transitional times of day — dusk, dawn, and early evening — when subtle shifts of light and atmosphere quietly transform the everyday. These moments form the basis of her ongoing Nocturne series where place is approached through memory, repetition, and attentive observation.
In 2025, Brock was awarded the Residency Award at the Lethbridge Landscape Prize. The residency provided an extended period of focused studio time, allowing her to deepen her engagement with nocturnal light and the emotional register of familiar places. In 2025 she was awarded 2nd Prize in the Waverley Woollahra 9 x 5 Art Prize and received a Highly Commended in the Lethbridge Small Scale Art Award. In 2024, she was selected as a Finalist in the National Emerging Art Prize, the Lethbridge Landscape Prize, and the Lethbridge Small Scale Art Award. She has exhibited her evolving Nocturnes series at The Other Art Fair over the past two years.
Awards / Achievements
2025 – Residency Award Lethbridge Landscape Prize
2025 – Highly Commended Lethbridge Small Scale Prize
2025 – 2nd Prize Waverley Woollahra Art School 9 x 5 Landscape Prize
2025 – Finalist Inside the Box Art Prize Corner Store Gallery
2024 – Finalist National Emerging Art Prize Michael Reid Northern Beaches
2024 – Finalist Lethbridge Landscape Prize, Lethbridge Small Scale Prize
2023 – Finalist Lethbridge Landscape Prize
2023 – Finalist Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Prize
2023 – Finalist Mosman Rowers Art Prize
2023 - Finalist Northern Beaches Gallery – Summer Exhibition Art Prize
Group Exhibitions
2026 New Light Group Showcase, Lethbridge Gallery
2026 Mosman Art Society Group Exhibition Mosman Art Gallery
2024 Mosman Art Society Group Exhibition, Mosman Art Gallery
2023 Manly Art Precinct Group Show
2023 Northern Beaches Gallery Where We Live Group Show
2022 ACB Selects Online Exhibition 2022 (Michael Reid Northern Beaches Gallery)
2022 Northern Beaches Gallery Still Life Group Show
2021 Eramboo Artist Community Group Show, Pittwater Perfect
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