Karina Grundy

Karina Grundy is an Adelaide based photographic artist. She was awarded Emerging Photographer of the Year in 2004 by newspaper and has been featured in 4-page articles in both Belle and Photofile Magazine.
Her most recent work focuses on the "Botanic" based series, exploring ideas and misconceptions around nature, environmentalism & fragility of life. This work was exhibited at Metro 5 Gallery in Melbourne in 2008.
Grundy is most well known for her confronting portraiture work. In her previous series, "Falling Through Days" (exhibited at Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide 2006; Monash Gallery, Melbourne 2007 and selected pieces as part of the "Girl Parade" exhibition at the ACP, Sydney 2008), her work is a portrait of the contemporary Australian family, in particular about her experience as a new mother. Grundy creates images that examine the role of women in contemporary society and the place of storytelling as conduit for knowledge and entertainment in our culture.
Her "Snap-Shot" series (exhibited at Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide 2004) was critically very well received and prompted a critique in State of the Arts Magazine (extract): "Grundy's snap-shots address the virulent spread of photography to all aspects and contexts of daily life and, more importantly, examine the subconscious factors that stimulate picture-taking. In scrutinising Grundy's fascinating Snap-shots, one is perhaps reminded of the strange and elusive character of photographs, and their ability to "trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real" 7 as objects of fantasy and units of information."

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