Biography
Kristina Lynch is a figurative painter whose work explores her transient upbringing between Canada and the United States of America and her recent immigration to Australia. She makes oil paintings exploring my transient upbringing and subsequent international relocation in search of belonging.
Artist Statement
My current practice is founded onthe need to understand my place through human connection, and the loss ofconnection I experience by relocating. I am currently exploring the moments whenthoughts of where I was previously, and where I am currently, have becomeblurred. I am working with concepts of loneliness and isolation, loss ofrelationships, loss of independence, and the difficulty of building newrelationships in adulthood. While I am exploring my connection to where I was,to where I’ve landed, I have been building a family with someone that has avery strong sense of place and belonging.
My work has been inspired by adream state I have experience wherein the cities of Toronto and Perth areblended into a new place, both familiar and foreign. In my work, I amreferencing the feeling of being chewed up by the challenges of living in ametropolis and the helplessness of needing to take a leap of faith to findbelonging elsewhere.