Karen is currently working on a series of brooches, which reference buildings and architectural spaces she worked with during her career as a heritage consultant.

These works are in part a purely aesthetic response to architecture and architectural environments; but they also reflect her fascination with the way built environments emerge, particularly in unregulated situations – the idiosyncratic shapes of buildings that result, and the absences between them. These absences, which function as living theatres of community interaction, sometimes become as important as the profiles of the buildings themselves.