Karine is a Set and Costume designer based in Melbourne. Her most recent credits include Set Design Associate for Hour of the Wolf, ( Dir. Matt Lutton, Malthouse Theatre) under set designer Anna Cordingley, Set and Costume Design for The Fence, (Dir. Alice Darling, Northcote Town Hall) , Costume Design for Underneath Ms Archer, (Dir. Peter Houghton, St Martins), Set and Costume Design for Atlantis (Dir. Bella Vadiveloo, Malthouse Theatre), Costume Design for Laurinda ( Dir. Petra Kalive, Melbourne Theatre Company), Costume Design for Gugu naGogo,  (Dir. Taku Mbudzi, ABC/ Screen Australia short film).

Karine was born in Mauritius. Although always drawing, she also had a taste for stories and was very good at grammar. At the end of her secondary studies, Karine was awarded a scholarship to study literature in Paris. After graduating from a Master at La Sorbonne Nouvelle, she decided to pursue her penchant for the Arts and graduated 3 years later from the Costume Department of ENSATT- École Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Techniques du Théâtre, Lyon.

For the decade that followed, Karine worked as a costumier in France and in Australia, mainly at The Australian Ballet. In 2019, Karine enrolled in the Master of Design for Performance at VCA- Victorian College of the Arts/ University of Melbourne, to realise her lifelong dream of designing sets and costumes, and has recently graduated with first class honours. During her time at VCA, Karine has been awarded the Portland House Outreach Program Scholarship, the Trina Parker Scholarship and the Jim Marks Postgraduate Scholarship. After VCA, Karine completed the Besen Family Artist Program ( Set and Costume Design) at Malthouse Theatre.