Kirsten Farrell [she/her] is a queer multidisciplinary artist who the ANU School of Art in Canberra and continues to live on unceded Ngunnawal and Ngambri land. Her practice encompasses conceptual, object-based installation, textile and performative modes of practice and is nonetheless grounded in painting.

She completed a Bachelor of Japanese Studies at ANU which enabled her to spend time at both Kansai University and Kyoto Seika University, where she learned about Japanese papermaking traditions and began exploring installation in the mode of the mono-ha and gutai movements. Remaining in Japan for 18 months during her undergraduate studies and then living for a further 2 years in rural Japan, she began experimenting with urban interventions using plastic objects that queried space and consumer culture and which invited serendipitous conversations with locals who encountered the works (she is a fluent Japanese speaker). She subsequently completed her PhD in visual art practice at the ANU School of Art in 2016 which was titled ‘The Performance of Colour: Material, Time, Language’. Her thesis included a colour divination system and series of performances called ‘The Vivisector Oracle: A Colour System for Artists and Others in Times of Uncertainty’.

info@kirsten-farrell.com

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