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Karen McSwan Silsby | Chaos and Order | 21 Aug – 19 Sep
Upcoming Exhibitions | Visual Arts

Karen McSwan Silsby, Consequence (imbalance of power) (detail), 2026, Mixed media.

EXHIBITION DATES: 21 August – 19 September, 2026

OFFICIAL OPENING: Friday 21 August, 6pm

COST: Free

Public Program: Creative Workshop | 29 Aug

Details

Karen McSwan Silsby’s abstract paintings emerge from a deep impulse to impose structure on a world in flux. She confronts the turbulence of personal, political, and environmental crises, fragmenting the chaos with grids and nets, and stitching through the layers of paint, canvas and mixed media to deliberately demonstrate resistance and resilience.

About the Artist

Karen McSwan Silsby is an artist working and studying on Ngunnawal and Ngambri land. She is primarily a painter working in acrylics and mixed media and has recently completed her Bachelor of Visual Arts at ANU. She has participated in over 20 group exhibitions since 2015, and her work is in private collections in Canberra and interstate. This is her first solo exhibition.