Karryn is a queer, feminist, visual artist based in Melbourne Australia. Her work spans handmade textiles, sculpture, and assemblage. Karryn investigates how emotions such as grief, vulnerability, and loss can be expressed through the embodied sculptural form, in relation to objects and space.
​Recent projects include ‘Body of Work' which explores a model of making textile artworks that extends the lifecycle of materials and the artwork. This model of production includes sharing materials, reusing clothes as art materials, refurbishing, recycling materials and remaking existing artworks into temporary and permanent works.​ Techniques like coiling, padding, crocheting, twining, sewing, and gluing are explored to make forms reminiscent of bodily shapes and spaces. Another recent project ‘Holding on until you Cure’ delves into themes of vulnerability and loss. Karryn creates plaster works with found objects. She tenderly holds them until they set, symbolically embracing the process of healing. Both of these projects are an exploration into the embodied sculptural form and the emotions that these forms may evoke.
Karryn enjoys working closely with fellow artists and has had collaborative exhibitions at various Melbourne galleries including Kings Artist Run, Sandbox Studios Box Gallery, Assembly Point, and ACU Gallery. Her artwork has also been featured in selected group exhibitions in both Melbourne and Sydney and solo shows in Melbourne and regional NSW. She has been a finalist in art prizes including the 6th Biennial Petite Miniature Textile Exhibition at Wangaratta Gallery, The Manning Art Prize: Naked & Nude at Manning Regional Gallery, Emerging Artist Craft Award with Craft NSW, Queer Art Prize Australia, and the Moreland Summer Show at Counihan Gallery. She holds a Master of Fine Art from RMIT University, a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from Monash University and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Humanities and Sociology from La Trobe University. 
Karryn has worked in Adult Community Education for 20+ years and since 2017 has taught art history and theory in the Diploma of Visual Arts. 

You can contact Karryn via email on [email protected] or via the contact form below 

Craft-based skills are central to her practice and these were taught to Karryn by her mother Marion Waters and her grandmothers Eileen Argus and Mary Dalton.​

Marion Waters

Eileen Argus

Mary Dalton