Karen Monid

Award-winning sound
& visual artist.

Karen Monid

Award-winning sound artist and designer

About Me

I am a sound artist and projection specialist based in the UK

I’m a sound artist exploring the meeting point of lived experience, place, and storytelling. My worktransforms public spaces and private listening into environments that aim to spark curiosity and imagination. Drawing on deep research and a fascination with human perception, I experiment with voice, music, and noise to shape immersive sound worlds. My experience spans temporary and permanent projects alike, from art festivals and museums to major public commissions and state occasions.

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Projection Mapping Collaboration

I collaborate with projection artists worldwide, as I am committed to exploring the synergy created by visuals and sound, and blending skills with others to create new works with fresh perspectives. I actively promote projection and sound works as a vital forms of public art and see every collaboration and new partnership as a opportunity to bring creative expression into the public realm with others who work across artistic and technical disciplines. My collaborative projects have been featured at major events, from the Olympics to international light festivals, demonstrating the power of shared vision to transform and enrich the public experience.

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Words Of Appreciation

Karen Monid brought intellectual rigour and creative vision to the work created for two of our sites – Cliffords Tower and Belsay Hall, Castle and Gardens [English Heritage]. Her work is grounded in detailed historical research, offering visitors an evocative and resonant way to engage with place. Artistically compelling and publicly enriching, Karen’s work demonstrates the power of sound to animate heritage with depth, nuance, and emotional resonance.

Karen creates pieces that are accessible to modern audiences. She understands sound not only as atmosphere, but as a means to hold an audience in a moment, to guide their emotional and imaginative experience, and enhance their understanding.

It has been a delight to work with Karen over the last ten years or so. In partnership with Ross Ashton, they have created a series of cutting edge light shows in York Minster starting with the extraordinary ‘Northern Lights’. This used imagery from the recently restored Great East Window brought to life by evocative and meticulously researched soundscapes created by Karen. Most recently, ‘Phoenix’ vividly recaptured the extraordinary efforts to save York Minster from the devastating 1984 fire. Everyone who saw the shows was entranced by the richness and quality of the performances. Totally outstanding!

Karen Monid builds extraordinary soundscapes. I have enjoyed her work at light festivals across the UK and experienced firsthand Karen creating work for our festivals; witnessing how her research and influences come into play in the final pieces she creates, which are always textured and beguiling. The countless hours she spends finessing her compositions always results in something enthralling and wonderfully inventive.

Karen's work provokes delight, surprise, and wonder (at all ages), but is also thoughtprovoking and ruminative. The fuller and richer process of collaboration also mean that the final product is, more often than not, the start of the next collaboration.

Award-winning sound & visual artist.

Award-winning sound artist and designer

I am a sound artist and projection specialist based in the UK

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As previously worked with

Projection Mapping Collaboration

Words Of Appreciation

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Award-winning sound
& visual artist.