Botticelli eye with poppies, expressionist skull and thoughts, and cockatoo feather
Kristen Flynn
500mm x 630mm /
Works on Paper
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Highly Commended - Works on Paper
This multi-plate print work is a self-portrait and memento mori. It explores the entanglement of my rural environment, my identity, everyday reality, and unknown paralleling dimensions. As I create and view my work I feel the brevity of life, and I contemplate how paralleling dimensions might operate. I have used a cockatoo feather I found in my garden to pay tribute to my beautiful rural surroundings, as it is a constant source of inspiration, and energy for my art practice. I have created this work in my rural Chinchilla studio by merging old and new printmaking methods.
Curator’s Comment
This work demonstrates strong technical ability, and the conceptual framework is well-articulated and sustained visually throughout the work. There is a strong sense of image juxtaposition and experimental mark-making, employed to articulate complex layers of meaning. The artwork statement is thoughtful and responds appropriately to the theme, particularly within the context of contemporary printmaking.
About the artist
Flynn investigates facets of motherhood, beauty, decay, and life cycles through found objects from her environment, and through appropriating past artworks. Her practice serves to stimulate her feelings of transcendence- a moving between worlds, whilst foregrounding the abject nature of the body and its destiny to return to the earth.