Outer Space is a not-for-profit Contemporary Arts organisation in Meanjin/Brisbane. We collaborate with artists and arts workers to develop, make, and present critically engaged creative practice in a supportive professional environment. 

Our exhibitions, events, and programs welcome those involved in, and curious about the arts. Outer Space is committed to fostering a sustainable creative community in Brisbane that engages local, regional, national and global contexts. 

This episode was hosted by Outer Space General Manager, Georgia Hayward. 

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Karen Stephens is an Australian artist based in Winton (Qld) whose interdisciplinary practice examines the politics of the gaze and distorted structures of seeing through the mediums of contemporary landscape and portraiture painting. Stephens completed a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) from Griffith University’s Queensland College of Art (2017).

Stephens’ paintings can be seen on two major interstate billboard projects. In 2016 she won the Flying Arts Alliance’s Queensland Regional Art Awards and in 2022 selected as one in three Central Queensland artists to receive a place making commission at the inaugural opening of the Rockhampton Museum of Art.

karenstephens.com.au