• While Rome Burns by Karen Hammat, abstract painting dominated by vivid red, blue and cream forms with black gestural marks and areas of yellow and turquoise.
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Karen Hammat

While Rome Burns

While Rome Burns

Karen Hammat

Painting

101 x 76 x 3 cm

€1,400.00 EUR
€1,400.00 EUR
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ARTWORK DETAILS

Medium: Mixed media

Materials: Mixed media on canvas

Signed: Yes, verso

Certificate of Authenticity: Yes

Year created: 2026

Framed: No

Ready to hang: Yes

Packaging: Ships rolled in a tube

Ships from: Australia

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Curator's Notes

PUBLICATIONS

  • In the Spotlight: Karen Hammat, Women United Art Magazine, Issue XIV, Summer 2026, P25.
Australian painter and artists Karen Hammat stands in a doorway wearing a black long-sleeve top, blue jeans, and red sneakers, posed in front of a textured beige stucco wall with a circular window.

From the artist

While Rome Burns was completed as an uncontrolled bushfire burned approximately twenty kilometres away from my home in Southern Australia. The piece reflects the quiet dissonance of making while disaster unfolds nearby, where attention drifts between the immediate and the catastrophic.

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