Karla Dickens is a Wiradjuri woman living and working in Goonellabah, on Bundjalong country in New South Wales. She is a multidisciplinary artist who interrogates aspects of the naiotn's history, providing provocative reflections on Australian culture as well as explorong religion, race, sexuality, the environment and motherhood. A graduate from the National Arts School, Dickens has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally, with works represented in a number of significant public collections. The Windmill Trust Scholarship will enable Dickens to create new works for an exhibition at Wollongong Art gallery in April 2025.