The Layered Vista - Jigsaw Lino Print workshop with Kristen Flynn
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Kristen Flynn was born in regional Queensland, Australia. At an early age Flynn was drawn to the arts and regularly participated in visual art, drama, and dance. After completing school, Flynn pursued a career in the visual arts completing a Bachelor of Creative Industries (visual arts) and a Bachelor of Education (secondary education) at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane in 2009. With this, Flynn worked as a visual arts educator in high schools for ten years. After meeting her husband and transitioning from ‘in-town-living’ to living on a farm, Flynn began to feel the brevity and mortality of life and take notice of her rugged immediate environment. In addition to her farm living, the birth of her first child, was the catalyst to start building her contemporary art practice. Art allowed Flynn to play in the ‘grey area’ of life, where she felt free to create an embodied approach to visual communication and explore the evolving nature of her identity and her becoming a mother artist. To further build her contemporary art practice, Flynn completed a Master of Arts (specialising in Creative Arts) (with Distinction) through the University of Southern Queensland in 2024. Flynn has exhibited locally, regionally, and internationally in in Paris, Miami, and New York.Furthermore, in early 2025, Flynn held a solo exhibition at the Print Council of Australia in Melbourne.
Flynn utilises both old and new printmaking techniques, collage, and contemporary approaches to create works that examine who she is, and who she is becoming. She utilises her surrounds to scavenge for found objects to include in her work. These include flowers, weeds, animal skulls, and past artworks and images out of old discarded books. Essentially, all works created from her contemporary art practice are self-portraits – rooted in self-discovery. She is particularly drawn to investigating facets of motherhood, mortality, beauty, decay, and life cycles. Flynn’s art practice serves to stimulate her thoughts and feelings of transcendence- a moving between worlds, whilst foregrounding the abject nature of the female body and its destiny to return to the earth.