- Following 2.2K
- Followers 10.9K
- Engagement 4.25%
- Avg likes 459
- Avg comments 26
About Karen Black
Karen Black (@karenblackstudio) is an Artist creator on Instagram, also filed under Art & DIY. The account has 10,925 followers and 192 published posts. Recent posts average 459 likes and 26 comments, an engagement rate of 4.25%.
With 10.9K followers, Karen Black is a micro creator by the common 10,000 to 100,000 definition. Karen Black follows 2,168 accounts, so the audience is roughly 5 times the size of the list followed. Karen Black is set up as an Instagram business account. Flinque files Karen Black under Artist, with Art & DIY as a secondary category.
The Instagram bio for Karen Black runs to 9 words across 3 lines. The bio mentions @the.renshaws and @suttongallerymelbourne. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Karen Black dates from June 2026.
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192 Posts
Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Karen Black, 7 are single images and 3 are carousels. That mix leans toward single images. 192 published posts give Karen Black a moderate archive on Instagram. Against the audience, that is roughly 57 followers for each post published. Karen Black also keeps 2 story highlights on the profile. All 10 carry captions, averaging 99 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include works, polyester, body, work and triple. The captions tag #karenblackstudio, #suttongallerymelbourne, #karenblack, #contemporarypainting and #contermporarysculpture.
81.2h x 96.6w
Oil on triple primed French polyester
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Black works across painting, ceramics and sculpture to explore the body as a site of both trauma and resilience. Her practice operates in the tension between abstraction and figuration; and myth and autobiography. For Black, painting is not mere representation but embodied thinking: a cyclical, recursive process of emotional archaeology in which paint is laid down, scraped back and softened until what remains is less an image than an accumulation of energies. Rooted in a politics of care and attention to the historically invisible, her work offers a space of radical empathy, where softness becomes a form of resistance.
The Renshaws are also enormously grateful to Sutton Gallery, whose 12 years of dedicated support have been foundational to Karen’s practice. That relationship continues, and we look forward to working alongside them in support of Karen’s career.
#karenblack #contemporarypainting #contermporarysculpture
Image: Karen Black ‘Fire and ice’ 2020
Oil on canvas, 1985h x 1368w mm
Photograph: Mark Pokorny
This one for the Wynne is one of the largest paintings I’ve ever made. Images are details within the large work that I enjoyed painting. The first detail is a self portrait with pet cockatiel 😊
‘Body like a mountain’ 2026
Oil and oil stick on triple primed French polyester
200.10h x 311.5cmw
Growing up in the bush, I developed a deep connection to the landscape, especially mountains, and I’ve made many works over the years about their presence and energy.
My late father often photographed them with his box brownie camera shaping how I see and remember place. In this work I draw on the zen phrase ‘body like a mountain’ reflecting stability, vastness and presence through a unity with nature.
Formed over eons, Australian mountains hold a quiet endurance and ancient energy. I allowed the composition to float, layering oil sticks, to suggest the shared energy of body and land moving together across time.
Image 1: 'Hidden place' - Sulman Prize Finalist
oil and oil stick on polyester; custom wood frame
59 x 78.8 cm
Image 2: 'Body like a mountain' - Wynne Prize Finalist
oil and oil stick on polyester
201 x 311.5 cm
The works will be on view at the Art Gallery of NSW on Saturday, 9th May 2026.
It transformed each work into a sculptural form-the folds, creases and curves of these handmade frames opened up new possibilities for the composition letting the paint push into corners, sliding the brush through a deep curve or racing around the edge to touch the wall.
I’m at it again and enjoying the process so much.
Here’s one from my solo show ITS NOT REAL which opened just as COVID closed us down. Seemed like an accidentally apt title for the show at the time.
Projectile, 2020
Oil on triple primed French polyester with unique wooden frame
60.7 x 76.2 x 6.1cm
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#karenblackstudio #suttongallerymelbourne
Here are some pics from the process and now that she is gone, a possible title for her. (I saved some bits for further development one day).
Some quite hilarious images of her street side being painted with pigment and water sprays outside the front of my studio building.
Could not have made this without my awesome friend and trusted studio assistant for many years, Hal Witney who was turning up after his day job to get her finished on time. Also a special thanks to for all of his mentoring on this project and allowing me to make a huge mess in and around his ground floor studio. As well as saving her from falling over on a couple of occasions.
‘I believe in you too’ 2024
Plaster, fibreglass cloth, steel, wood, screws, paper, wire, foam, pigments, sealant
160 x 247 x 270cm
Image 1:
#bigsculpture #publicart #publicartwork
#karenblackstudio #suttongallerymelbourne
‘Proposal for Feeling’ 2022
Oil on canvas
122cmh x 305cmw
Photo by the always amazing
Editorial styling
These ceramics were acquired by NGV in 2016 from my solo show, ‘Crown, legs, arms’. Both works were also curated into the exhibition ‘Shut up and paint’ coinciding with the major NGV exhibition ‘David Hockney: Current’ in 2016/17.
Talk
Saturday 28 February
12 - 12.30pm
NGV Australia
Federation Square
Melbourne
Exhibition - 4 Oct 2025 to 9 March 2026
LHS
Rooftop at night, 2016
Glazed earthenware with coloured slips
73h x 28w x 28cmd
RHS: Crown, legs, arms, 2016
Glazed earthenware with coloured slips and 23k gold leaf
68.5h x 31w x 30cmd
📸 Christian Markel
‘Life of meaning’ 2026
Oil & oil stick on triple primed French polyester
41 x 61.2cm
254 Brunswick street, Fitzroy
#karenblackstudio
Karen Black's engagement
Karen Black's engagement rate on Instagram is 4.25%, between 3% and 6%, or 3 to 6 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 24 followers. An average post collects 459 likes and 26 comments, close to 18 likes for each comment.
Engagement rate
4.25%
- Avg likes
- 459
- Avg comments
- 26
- Interactions : followers
- 1 : 24
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Who is Karen Black?
Karen Black (@karenblackstudio) is an Artist creator on Instagram, also filed under Art & DIY. Karen Black is set up as an Instagram business account. The Instagram bio for Karen Black runs to 9 words across 3 lines.
How many followers does Karen Black have?
Karen Black has 10,925 followers on Instagram (10.9K). Karen Black follows 2,168 accounts, so the audience is roughly 5 times the size of the list followed. 192 published posts give Karen Black a moderate archive on Instagram.
What is Karen Black's engagement rate?
Karen Black's engagement rate on Instagram is 4.25%, between 3% and 6%, or 3 to 6 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 24 followers. An average post collects 459 likes and 26 comments, close to 18 likes for each comment.
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Flinque files Karen Black under Artist, with Art & DIY as a secondary category. Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Karen Black, 7 are single images and 3 are carousels. The 10 recent Instagram captions Flinque holds for Karen Black repeatedly use the words works, polyester, body, work and triple. Karen Black's captions carry hashtags such as #karenblackstudio, #suttongallerymelbourne and #karenblack. Karen Black writes those captions mainly in English. Karen Black keeps 2 story highlights, which open with a free Flinque account.
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