A visual arts teacher pursuing her individual artistic practice since 2017, Kristen Flynn combines traditional and contemporary printmaking techniques to examine and communicate her identity. Living on a rural property and being a mother, she is drawn to investigating different aspects of the experience of motherhood, life cycles, and beauty through found objects and imagery drawn from her immediate surrounds. Flynn’s art practice aims to evoke thoughts and feelings of transcendence – a moving between worlds – whilst foregrounding the abject nature of the female body and its ultimate destiny to return to the earth. Flynn has been curated into numerous group exhibitions since 2016 and is a multi-time finalist and winner of the Western Downs Regional Artists exhibition. While she undertakes a Master of Visual Arts degree, she is currently working toward her solo exhibition In Between, due to open in Chinchilla, Queensland in 2023.
Featured Image: Kristen Flynn, Self-portrait with grevillea, 2022. Oil on paper, 21 x 29.5cm. Courtesy: the artist.