I am an artist and educator, living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I was born in England and I came to the US in 1994, originally to undertake a 6-month Residency at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska.

My work explores ideas of memory, place, and displacement; of wilderness and our constructed environment, and our uneasy interactions with what we call Nature, through a combination of drawing, printmaking, photography, video and installation. I’ve exhibited at Arnolfini Gallery and Bristol City Museum in the UK, Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, and Silver Eye, Pittsburgh Filmmakers and Pittsburgh Center for the Arts in Pittsburgh. Three of my large scale drawings are in the permanent collection on exhibition at the David Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh. My photography, printmaking, and drawing are in private collections in both the UK and the US.

I have a Bachelors degree in 3-Dimensional Design from Cardiff College of Art in the UK, and an MFA from Vermont College, VT. I currently teach photography at Carnegie Mellon University.

© Robert Buncher. Overhead view of Karen Antonelli setting up a Graflex Crown Graphic 4x5 camera in a wood

Photo: © Robert Buncher