Art2Muse A vibrant art gallery Located in the heart of Double Bay, Art2Muse Gallery attracts locals, designers, national and international art lovers who can also view and purchase artworks online. Established in 2001 by Katrina Hampton, Art2Muse Gallery represents a diverse range of artworks from 45 established artists at an affordable price. The gallery has been operating in Double Bay since 2008 with an exciting program of regular exhibitions and provides ongoing personalised service. In November 2014 Art2Muse Gallery was the first Australian gallery to be invited to participate in the Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair in Turkey. We offer a home consultation service to advise on artworks. An initial visit to your home or office will include photographing the space and discussing your preferences. We will then produce a catalogue of recommended artworks superimposed on your walls as a preview before trying the pieces in your home. The $99 consultation fee is then deducted from your first art purchase. Here is a selection of available artworks by Karen Barbouttis. Please feel free to contact us for high resolution photographs and catalogues of artworks you are interested in and to discuss your requirements. Katrina Hampton Director Art2Muse Gallery Katrina Hampton Art2Muse Gallery www.art2muse.com.au 357 New South Head Rd Double Bay Sydney P. O. Box 211 Woollahra NSW 1350 Australia Phone: 0424 809 849 Email: katrina.hampton@art2muse.com.au
Karen Barbouttis Born in Sydney, Karen Barbouttis has an artistic practice that has developed out of a principally self-taught tradition. While completing a degree in Psychology, Karen sought employment at the Hanna Barbera Studios in Sydney where she was trained in animation, as an animator. This was a field in which she continued to work over the next twenty five years, working in various studios in both Sydney and Melbourne, such as The Disney Studios, Yoram Gross Studios, Burbank, Unlimited Energee, Energee Entertainment, and Mickey Duck Studios. Karen also worked in concept art, creating and designing both finished art and merchandise for companies in the United States, such as Harveytoons, Warner Brothers, and Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. Working in book illustration, one of her collaborations with Dr Sandra Cabot resulted in a series of books that made the best-selling lists across Australia. Always working in the artistic field, but never engaging in any artistic practice of her own, Karen enrolled in the National Art School in Sydney in 2008. She graduated in 2010 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting Major, with Distinction, but it is the discipline of drawing to which she has returned to explore. Deferring an acceptance of enrolment in Honours Drawing at the National Art School, the year of experimentation and exploration developed into a valuable learning experience. In 2011, the selection of Karen s work as Winner of The Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing was a career highlight. Upcoming Exhibition at Art2Muse Gallery 12 25 June 2018
Artist Statement The subjects that I choose to draw are taken from what I see around me. Most times I chance upon them in my own backyard, and on my daily walks through the parks, beaches and streets in my neighbourhood. On other occasions I seek them, when I am travelling in other countries, or at zoos, aquariums, farms, animal shows, and museums. I have endless inspiration all around me that will keep me drawing for the rest of my life. I enjoy observing animals and their interactions with their environment, with each other, and with the artist as the observer. As the artist as observer, the first thing I always want to capture is that moment when the animal I am either watching, drawing or photographing, actually watches me. Eye contact with an animal is a special feeling as it is in that moment that communication happens, it is in that moment that I actually see, and it is in that moment also that I realise that all life has a soul, that all life wants to live, that all life has dignity, that all life has compassion that ALL LIFE MATTERS. - Karen Barbouttis.
Education 2010 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting Major), National Art School, Sydney 1985 Bachelor of Arts (Psychology Major), University of NSW, Sydney Professional Experience 2000-2009 Illustration, Signum Graphics, Sydney 1999-2000 Character Design, Concept and Finished Art, Website Animation, Energee Entertainment, Sydney!995-98 Illustration and Book Illustration, Signum Graphics, Sydney. Book Illustration, Murray David Publishing, Sydney Concept Art and Finished Illustration, VB Concepts, Sydney 1993-94 Cartoon Animation, The Disney studios, Sydney 1991 Cartoon Animation, Unlimited Energee, Sydney 1990 Storyboards, Character design, Animation, Yoram Gross Studios, Sydney Illustration and Cartoon Animation, Burbank Studios, Sydney Tee- Shirt design, Everything Australian Stores, Sydney 1989 Cartoon Animation, Mickey Duck Studios, Melbourne 1978-1988 Cartoon Animation, Hanna Barbera Studios, Sydney Exhibitions 2017 Art2Muse Gallery, Double Bay, Sydney 2016 Art2Muse Gallery, Double Bay, Sydney 2015 Art2Muse Gallery, Double Bay, Sydney 2015 Lemnos the Greek Dimension in the Anzac Centenary, an Exhibition presented by the Embassy of Greece in Australia, Canberra. 2015 In Red 100 years from the Battle of Gallipoli. Ochra Gallery, Thessoloniki, Greece. 2014 Creatures. Solo exhibition, S.G. art gallery, Athens, Greece. 2014 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing. PLC Sydney. 2013 Sydney Childrens Hospital Spring Exhibition. Sydney Childrens Hospital, Randwick. 2013 Flanagan Art Prize, Ballarat. 2013 Flora and Fauna. Syndicate at Danks, Sydney 2013 Wilson Visual Arts Award, Lismore 2013 St Spyridon College The Arts Exhibition 2013. Invited Artist, Sydney 2013 Waverly Art Prize, Bondi-Waverly School of Arts, Sydney 2013 All Creatures Great and Small.Solo exhibition, Art2Muse, Sydney. 2013 Nurturing Hellenic Heritage the Australian Way. Hellenic Lyceum Sydney, Parliament House, Sydney. 2013 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing. PLC, Sydney 2012 The Mortimore Prize. Sydney. 2012 arc Yinnar Biennial Art Prize. 2012 Hunters hill Art Exhibition. Sydney 2012 Animals Exhibition. Syndicate at Danks, Sydney 2012 Drawings from The Animal Walk. St Vincents Hospital, Sydney. 2012 BSG Works on Paper Prize. Fitzroy. 2012 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing 2011 Drawings from The Museum of Life. St Vincents Hospital, Sydney. 2011 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing. PLC, Sydney. 2010 Selected Student Graduate drawing Exhibition. National Art School, Sydney. 2010 National Art School Graduate Show, Sydney. 2009 Exhibition of Selected Student Sketchbooks. Stairwell gallery, National Art School, Sydney.
2009 A Week on Cockatoo., Selected Student Work from the National Art School, Cockatoo Island, Sydney Selected Collections National Art School Student Collection, Sydney Pymble Ladies College, Sydney St Vincents Hospital, Sydney Commissions and Private collections Awards 2014 Finalist, Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing 2013 Finalist, Flanagan Art Prize 2013 Finalist, Wilson Visual Art Award 2013 Finalist, Waverly Art Prize 2013 Finalist, Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing 2012 Finalist, Highly Commended, arc Yinnar Biennial Drawing Prize 2012 Finalist, The Mortimore Art Prize 2012 Finalist, Commended, Hunters Hill Art Prize 2012 Finalist, BSG Works on paper prize 2012 Finalist, Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing 2011 Winner, Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing Bibliography 2014 The K- magazine, September. Athens, 2014 clickatlife.gr, October. Athens 2014 Athinorama, October. Athens 2014 Art22.gr,October, Athens. 2014 artandlife.gr, October. Athens. 2014 artmag.gr, October. Athens. 2013 The Cosmos Newspaper, April. Sydney. 2011 Art Monthly, #238, April. Sydney. 2011 Australian Art Collector, February 2011 Imprint Magazine, Winter, Vol 46, Number 2. Sydney
Hereford Calf, Sydney Royal Easter Show $1,950 Pencil on paper in a white box frame, 150 x 120cm
Alpacas $1,750 Pencil on paper in oak frame, 100 x 70cm
Alpacas $1,750 Pencil on paper in oak frame, 100 x 70cm Detail
Mykonos Donkey $1,750 Pencil on paper in oak frame, 100 x 70cm
Mykonos Donkey $1,750 Pencil on paper in oak frame, 100 x 70cm Detail
The Ladies of Vaucluse House II $1,750 Pencil on paper in oak frame, 100 x 70cm
The Ladies of Vaucluse House II $1,750 Pencil on paper in oak frame, 100 x 70cm Detail
French Bulldog $1,750 Pencil on paper framed, 100 x 70cm
The Whippet $1,750 Pencil on paper in white frame, 100 x 70cm
Deer Karen, Deer John $1,750 Pencil on paper in white frame, 100 x 70cm
Cockerel $1,750 Pencil on paper in white frame, 100 x 70cm
Entry 3671, Sydney Royal Easter Show $1,750 Pencil on paper in white frame, 100 x 70cm
The Wolfgang $1,750 Pencil on paper in white frame, 100 x 70cm
Seagull Looking at its Shadow $1,750 Pencil on paper in white frame, 100 x 70cm
Counting Sheep $2,500 Pencil on paper in white frame, 94 x 130cm
Native Ibis, Centennial Park $1,750 Pencil on paper in white frame, 70 x 100cm
I Love the Ibis $1,750 Pencil on paper in white frame, 83 x 113cm
Anti-Austerity Protest, Stray Dogs, Athens $1,750 Pencil on paper in white frame, 70 x 100cm
Mykonos Garbage Bin Cat $1,750 Pencil on paper in white frame, 70 x 100cm
Indian Myna Birds of Bondi Beach #1 $950 Pencil on paper in white frame, 58 x 53cm
Indian Myna Birds of Bondi Beach #2 $950 Pencil on paper in white frame, 58 x 53cm
Saltwater-Drinking Goat of Avlemmona, Kythera, Greece $950 Pencil on paper in white frame, 53 x 58cm
Saltwater-Drinking Goat of Avlemmona, Kythera, Greece $$950 Pencil on paper in white frame, 53 x 58cm Detail
Syntagma Square Pigeons, Athens, Greece $1,750 Pencil on paper in white frame, 103 x 82cm
Owl I, Attika Park Zoo, Athens Greece $2,000 Pencil on paper in reclaimed window, 89 x 76cm
Ruby the Anti-Austerity Dog, Syntagma Greece $1,750 Pencil on paper in white frame, 113 x 82cm
Nikos and Pavlos, Syntagma Square, Athens Greece $1,750 Pencil on paper in white frame, 113 x 82cm
As the Shadows Pass, Syntagma Square, Athens, Greece $1,750 Pencil on paper in white frame, 57cm x 78cm
English Staffordshire, Tropicana Cafe, Coogee $1,750 Pencil on paper in white frame, 110cm x 48cm
Sunday walk in Glyfada $1,750 Pencil on paper in white frame, 78cm x 57cm
Island Pup, Mykonos, Greece $1,750 Pencil on paper in white frame, 78cm x 57cm
Zeus, Tre Pani Artisan Bakery, Dover Heights $1,750 Pencil on paper in white frame, 38cm x 87cm