CAREN GARFEN

Garfen takes very complex issues and reduces them to very powerful messages. Not over complex in a manner that would disenfranchise the viewer but in a succinct and accessible communication. Conceptual visual artist & lecturer

current exhibitions

We were both moved and stunned by your exhibition. It is richly layered with meaning, and you bring a weight and heft to the many words spoken about the Holocaust and antisemitism. Sometimes, I wonder what more there is to say in all the books, all the films, all the writing, but your work draws out new threads. Daughters of fathers who arrived in UK on the Kindertransport

Fabricated?

**Solo Exhibition**
**LONDON, UK**
**1 October 2024 - 30 April 2025**

Moral Compass

**SELECTED**
**International Art Textiles Biennale 2025**
**Touring Exhibition**
**AUSTRALIA 2025 - 2026**
**East Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria**
**31 January - 22 March 2025**

He loves me he loves me not

**SELECTED**
**Contemporary Textiles**
**Fronteer Gallery**
**SHEFFIELD, UK**
**18 February - 6 March 2025**

Remember

**SELECTED**
**The Broderers’ Exhibition: The Art of Embroidery**
**Bankside Gallery**
**LONDON, UK**
**25 February - 2 March 2025**

Communities Lost

**SELLECTED**
**Community**
**13th Baltic Mini Textiles 2025**
**GDYNIA, POLAND**
**29 March to May 2025**

Beautiful how through all of it, your dainty embroidery threads its way with delicacy that stands in deep contrast to the horror and yet it is so right and fitting. Artist