REBECCA KINSEY

Rebecca Kinsey is an artist, graphic designer, word-nerd, and occasional pirate based in Byron Bay, Australia. She began her career as a graphic designer, graduating from Sydney Graphics College, followed by an internship at the Powerhouse Museum (Sydney, Australia). Originally a self-taught painter, she has just recently completed a degree in Visual Arts at Southern Cross University, Australia, majoring in painting with minor studies in drawing, screenprinting, papermaking and photography. Recent explorations have seen her moving away from her signature graphic and illustrative narrative style of painting, and into a more process driven multimedia practice. She is currently in residence at The Art Students League of New York’s Vytlacil Campus.

I have begun to use video as a central point in my work, as a tool for documenting, making work and as a medium itself. I am inspired by the beauty and the mundane nature of everday sorts of objects and activities. Lately I have been quite taken with the notion of making art whilst doing such activities. In a way that captures something of an experience without impacting the nature of it too much; walking, driving, reading. I have made whole bodies of work wilst doing these things.My latest work sees me projecting video onto the surfaces upon which I paint and draw. Creating abstract multimedia works using the haptic footage that I have collected on my travels as my source material. I am interested in the collision of digital media and the hand made mark.I am also experimenting with creating video pieces. Or what I call slow moving paintings out of some of my collected video footage, and these are dream like video versions of the paintings I’ve been making.

Website :http://www.rebeccakinsey.com/

Exhibitions list:

solo

2007 i love you… forever, Dolores Cupcake Studio Gallery, Byron Bay NSW Australia

select group

2010 Vytlacil Holiday Show, Elizabeth Sullivan Gallery, The Art Students League of New York, Sparkill NY USA

2010 Resident Open Studio Exhibit, The Art Students League of New York, Sparkill NY USA

2010 petits travaux, Retrospect Galleries, Byron Bay NSW Australia

2010 The Magic Faraway Tree, Retrospect Galleries, Byron Bay NSW

2010 Eastcoasters : Vegas Spray Cross City Experience, Bleeding Heart Gallery, Brisbane QLD

2010 Tandem 10, Space Gallery, North Coast Institute of TAFE Lismore, NSW

2010 Art Melbourne, Retrospect Galleries, Melbourne VIC

2009 petits travaux, Retrospect Galleries, Byron Bay NSW

2009 Art Sydney, Retrospect Galleries, Sydney NSW

2009 Transit 09, Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW

2009 2010 Byron Bay Art Diary Launch Exhibition, Byron Bay NSW

2009 Unknown Landscapes, Next Gallery, Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW

2009 Revolution of Art – Urban Art Exhibition, Retrospect Galleries, Byron Bay NSW

2009 Splendour In The Grass – Live Mural Painting, Byron Bay NSW

2008 12 x 12 art for the tree, Retrospect Galleries, Byron Bay NSW

2008 The Monday Group, Waywood Gallery, Byron Bay NSW

2008 Where Mighty Giants Dwell – Urban Art Exhibition, Retrospect Galleries, Byron Bay NSW

2008 Altered Books, Southern Cross University Library, Lismore NSW

2008 Marine Visions, Retrospect Galleries, Byron Bay NSW