Karen Guthrie is an artist that works with public art, installation, film making, and internet publishing. She lives and works in the Lake District, UK. Most of her work is done in collaboration with Nina Pope. Guthrie and Pope started working together in London as a collaborative duo in 1995 on projects that "enrich and inform public life" and they founded creative non-profit Somewhere in 2001.
Education
Karen Guthrie attended the Edinburgh College of Art from 1987 to 1991, receiving a BA in Printmaking. She attended the Royal College of Art in London from 1991 to 1993, receiving a MA in Printmaking.
Career
Guthrie began working with Nina Pope in 1995. She was part of an artist collective called The People From Off, which contributed to 'A Different Weekend' with their 'Festival of Lying'. Its members included Nina Pope, Anna Best, and Simon Poulter. Karen works on many public arts projects including initiatives with Grizedale Arts, including their website and land / garden development projects. Guthrie and Pope founded Somewhere, a creative non-profit to produce collaborative projects of interest.
Films
Making, A Life, as co-director & co-producer with Maria Benjamin, a portrait of Lakes artist Peter Hodgson
The Closer We Get, as director & co-producer, uncovering her own families hidden stories
Jaywick Escapes, as co-director & co-producer
The View From My House, directed and edited films made with inmates of HMP Preston
House of Ferment 2014/17 - A collaborative food installation with Grizedale Arts touring to various venues including Harris Museum Preston, Hauser & Wirth Somerset & Coniston Institute
Soil Culture - Artist-in-residence with Hauser & Wirth Somerset. Project curated by the Centre for Contemporary Art & the Natural World toured to various venues including Bristol Create, Hauser & Wirth Somerset, the Eden Project, Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton and White Moose, Barnstaple.
Schnucken, Elefanten und andere Gastgeschenke 2009 -, Germany. Multiple 'Titchy/Kitschy' shown in myvillages.org
Agrifashionista.tv - Commissioned by A Foundation & Grizedale Arts for Rochelle School, London. Two projects - Karen Guthrie's 'The Grotto' and a musical collaboration 'A Song for a Circus' between Nina Pope and Tim Olden
Broadcast Yourself 2007 - TV swansong archive exhibited as part of group show at Hatton Gallery and Cornerhouse
Almanac, Public art commission for the redevelopment of Cinema City, Norwich 2007
2010 Karen Guthrie and Nina Pope's new media installation ‘An Artist’s Impression’ was acquired by the Science Museum, London
2015 At the Hot Docsfilm festival in Toronto, Guthrie's The Closer We Get awarded the juried Best International Feature Documentary Award In the same year it also won Best UK Feature Documentary at London's Open City Documentary Festival & Best UK feature at the Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival
2016 Guthrie's The Closer We Get was awarded juried Special Awards at Flahertiana International Documentary Film Festival & Budapest International Documentary Festival
2016 Guthrie was awarded the Women Filmmakers Award at the LA Diversity Film Festival
