Join us for a conversation between artist, Karen Stephens, and Jonathan McBurnie, Director of Rockhampton Museum of Art. 

Stephens is an Australian-born artist based in remote Queensland. Working predominantly in the field of Australian landscape painting, her immersion in the environment informs a sustained investigation of the outback landscape, and she uses its inner regions as fertile ground to explore the personal as the universal.

She was one of three artists selected to exhibit in Here We Meet, which illustrated and celebrated the region’s connectedness and long history of cooperation and collaboration, bringing together works by Karen Stephens, Belynda Waugh and Veronika Zeil. Each artist lives and works in regional Queensland with their work exploring concepts of place, the environment and celebrating what Central Queensland as a community represents.

This project was made possible by the Australian Government’s Regional Arts Fund, provided through Regional Arts Australia, administered in Queensland by Flying Arts Alliance.