Karen Hatches

Karen is the second child of three children to Meredith Treacle and Denis Hatches. Karen was born in Alice Springs and grew up with her family in Kaltjiti (Fregon) APY lands – Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands, where she attended Fregon School. Karen was taught to paint as a young girl, by her grandmother, Mantuwa Dany Treacle. She paints Ngayuku Tamu Ngura (Country), her grandfather’s Country, Kuniya Tjukurpa, located an hour South of Fregon. Her paintings explore the land and its spoils of beauty, in the colours and diversity of flora, and the undulating land forms of the desert landscape; rock-holes, sand-hills and creeks that carve lines through the landscape. Karen is a diligent, highly promising painter, her husband is a Ngaanyatjarra man from from Warburton and while travelling for Anangu  ceremony she has painted here at Papulankutja Artists sharing stories from her country.