By Karima Baadilla
2025
oil on found board
10x15cm unframed
$420
ARTIST STATEMENT
"Relocating to the countryside in 2021 opened my eyes to the incredible beauty of open skies and vast spaces. I explore this environment through spontaneous drives to small towns, using my sketchbook and an old camera as tools for documentation and reflection.
A key element of my practice involves sourcing old or discarded art materials. These found objects become the physical base for my new work. I see this not as covering the past, but as a form of collaboration with the artists who came before me, connecting our shared appreciation for the landscape across time."
BIO
Karima Baadilla abandoned her career as a certified practicing accountant, and the lucrative career ladder. To her own surprise she went on a sabbatical and then decided to pursue a more creative life.
Karima has exhibited widely across Australia with her works held in a number of private collections both locally and internationally. In 2021 Karima won the Mark Brabham Emerging Artist Award presented as part of the Klytie Pate Ceramics Awards. In 2020 she was a finalist for a number of art prizes including the prestigious Bayside Acquisitive Prize (VIC), The Stanthorpe Art Prize (QLD), Muswellbrook Art Prize (NSW), and Collie Art Prize (WA). Karima was also the recipient of the Maribyrnong Rapid Grant funded by The City of Maribyrnong (VIC) and The Sidney Myer Grant funded by The Myer Foundation in 2020.
Most recently Karima just completed her honours degree in Visual Art from La Trobe university, she lives in Central Goldfields Victoria with her partner and two very silly sausage dogs.