Christine Kinsey


Christine Kinsey is a Welsh artist, author and curator, now based in Pembrokeshire. She was the co-founder and artistic director of Chapter Workshops and Centre for the Arts, Cardiff, now called Chapter Arts Centre.
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Biography

Christine Kinsey was born October 1942 in Pont-y-moel.

Career and practice

Kinsey has developed a group of female characters who emerge repeatedly in her paintings. These characters enact roles within the themes that she explores in her work including what it was like to grow up female in the industrial valleys of south east Wales; and Cymreictod. Her touring solo show, Cymreictod – Women of Wales, was reviewed in the magazine Spare Rib. Kinsey also examines the depiction of women within a western Christian culture.
Her work is represented in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in Swansea, Contemporary Art Society for Wales in Cardiff, and Newport Museum in Newport.
She was the co-founder and artistic director of Chapter Workshops and Centre for the Arts, Cardiff, now called Chapter Arts Centre.

Publications

Books

  • 2005 Researcher / Co-Editor - Christine Kinsey / Dr. Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan; Imaging the Imagination; An exploration of the relationship between the image and the word in the art of Wales. Published by Gwasg Gomer, Llandysul.
  • 2022 Curator / Editor – Christine Kinsey; HON Artistiaid Benywaidd yng Nghymru / Women Artists in Wales. A fully bilingual book published by The H’mm Foundation, Swansea.
  • 2023 Artist / Author – Christine Kinsey; Truth, Lies & Alibis – Encounters in Images and Words by Christine Kinsey. Published by The H’mm Foundation, Swansea.

Catalogues

  • 1986 A Pilgrims Progress in Painting and Drawing.
  • 1989 Cymreictod-Menywod Cymru / Women of Wales;
  • 1994 Bywyd Arall / Another Life; Exhibition catalogue                  
  • 1999 Meta; Imaging the Imagination; Exhibition catalogue
  • 2001 Llais / Voice;  Exhibition catalogue
  • 2006 Ymddiddan / Colloquy; Exhibition  CD Newport Museum and Art Gallery.
  • 2014 Correspondences: Contemporary painting in response to the life and writing of R.S. Thomas.

Reviews and articles

  • 1996 Welsh Books Council magazine. Review of ‘David Jones Maker Unmade’ Derek Shiel and Jonathan Miles and a ‘Fusilier at the Front’ selected by Anthony Hyne.
  • 1996 Catalogue statement Student of the Year. Glyn Vivian Art Gallery and Museum, Swansea.
  • 1999 Arts and the Welsh Assembly, Western Mail. January 29th
  • 1999 Interviewed by Gilly Adams on Chapter Art Centre; Planet Magazine June 1999
  • 2003 Review David Jones Journal ‘The Private David Jones’ exhibition Glyn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea.
  • 2005 Book; Imaging the Imagination: An exploration of the relationship between the image and the word in the art of Wales. Published by Gwasg Gomer, Llandysul.
  • 2008/9 De Numine Magazine, The Image and Word / Myth and Imagination in the Art of Christine Kinsey: Alister Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre, University of Wales, Lampeter.
  • 2009 Planet Magazine 193 Christine Kinsey A Space of Silent. Belonging / An Artists Diary.
  • 2015 Encounters with Osi – Remembering Osi Rhys Osmond. Overviews – On Painting. H'mm Foundation, Swansea.

Images commissioned for book covers