'Body in search of a Soul'
'A Moment in the Dance'
Artists
Arthur Giardelli
Brendan Burns
Carol Hiles
Christine Kinsey
Chris Shurrock
Clive Hicks-Jenkins
Dennis Gardner
Dilys Jackson
Emrys Williams
Glyn Jones
Harvey Hood
John Selway
Martyn Jones
Peter Seabourne
Peter Spriggs
Robert Harding
Robert Alwyn Hughes
Sue Hunt
Sue Williams
Tom Piper
Antonia Spowers
Richard Renshaw
Ken Elias
" The themes of liberation and enclosure are vehicles that articulate the narrative line in my paintings and in my poetry, which also forms an important part of my creative process. The layers of influence that have evolved from'knowing about' being female, growing up in an industrial Welsh Valley and now living in rural West Wales, and, Cymreictod a sense of feeling of being Welsh within the Celtic/ Christian history of Wales forms a backdrop against which characters in each painting enacts a role.
The characters often appear in continuous representation acting as 'remembrancers and showers forth' moving through time and space in a quest to unify an outer world with an inner world, they seek a bridge which leads from the invisible to the visible acknowledging a spirituality that lies behind our perception of reality. The poetry of R.S.Thomas, which explores the interface between the worldly, the spirit and the imagination acts as a catalyst in my most recent paintings".
Christine Kinsey was born in Pont-y-moel, Gwent, South Wales. Between 1968 and 1976 she was Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Chapter, Workshop and Centre of the Arts in Cardiff, the first Art Centre of its kind in Europe. Additionally she was involved in a range of public organisations promoting the arts in Wales including being Artistic Advisor to Cardiff City Council on the re-development of Cardiff City Centre. She worked as artist and teacher on the Dutch/French Island of St Maarten in the Caribbean. Since returning to Wales in 1980 she has lived and worked in Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire. She has had one national and three international solo touring exhibitions. She has exhibited and has paintings in collections in Belgium, Caribbean, Catalonia, Eire, England, Lithuania, Scotland, Switzerland, Wales and the USA.
Her work is represented in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea; and the Contemporary Art Society for Wales. She is the recipient of numerous awards. She initiated META a touring exhibition featuring collaborative work by poets and painters, which was exhibited in Wales and in Europe. Paintings from her series 'Llais' were exhibited at the Opera House, Vilnius in 2002 and at Sofa Gallery,
Druskininkai, Lithuania in partnership with the poet Menna Elfyn as part of the Poetic Fall Arts Festival 2003. She initiated and co-edited with Dr Ceridwen Lloyd Morgan the book 'Imaging the Imagination'. An exploration of the relationship between image and the word in the art of Wales' published by Gwasg Gomer in May 2005.
Her solo exhibition Ymddiddan/Colloquy is currently touring galleries throughout Wales.
Honarary
Research Fellow to the Faculty of Art & Design, Swansea
Portrait pic Bernard Mitchell