Karen Roulstone is Head of Painting and Printmaking at Glasgow School of Art. Her research interests centre around contemporary painting; the expanded field of painting; the expanded field of drawing; video painting; concepts of absence; spectrality, indeterminacy and Eastern Philosophy.
She has exhibited in Europe, UK, Asia and North America having been based in Toronto for over 15 years. She has carried out extended research residencies in Berlin, Germany and Gothenberg, Sweden. She has been the recipient of grants from the AHRC (doctoral research) Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, The Social Enterprise Fund, Plymouth City Council, and an International Career Development Grant, Visual and Media Arts, Department of Foreign Affairs & International Trade, Canada Councmore...
2007 PhD (Research through art practice: painting & video) Plymouth University, UK
1992 Master of Arts, York University, UK
1986 Bachelor of Arts (with Distinction) Fine Art, Exeter University, UK
