Born in New Plymouth, New Zealand, Karley is a self taught artist living in Auckland. Karley works across a range of disciplines including painting, sculpture and taxidermy.

In Karley's paintings, she is interested in blending visual languages and exploring how colour, abstract forms and representational images can cross-reference each other and how it is perceived by the audience.

Karley's taxidermy and sculpture works offer a vision of a world where fantasy and reality merge into infinite possibilities, uncertainty, and wonder. Themes such as life, death, beauty, restriction and escapism are explored, sometimes from moments she experiences in her own life. Her use of taxidermy can evoke powerful emotions and inspire our morbid curiosity surrounding death. Representations of humans are introduced in the form of dolls and the choice of animal is deliberate and used as a symbolic reference to the themes she explores in her work.

Karley’s works are held in private collections in the UK, Australia, Russia and New Zealand.