Dark art by Karen Hewson

My Story

I scour charity shops to rescue dolls, plastic animals, mirrors and other left-behind, once-loved things. I take them apart, let them rest and coax their remains back into these three dimensional artworks. Fractured memories and fantasies of childhood live in my work, with themes of being seen but not seeing clearly in return, of not being able to grasp whether games were real or not, and being aware of but not able to articulate, a sort of diffused malevolence or warping in the background.