A split portrait artwork, with the right side depicting a print of a woman's face and a superimposed image of Botticelli's Birth of Venus and the left side of the portrait depicting an animal's skeleton against a black background.

23 Jan – 7 Feb

Kristen Flynn: Split Self-Portrait Series

Kristen Flynn utilises both old and new printmaking techniques to create works that investigate and communicate her identity. She is particularly drawn to investigating facets of motherhood, beauty, decay, and life cycles through found objects she finds in her direct environment, and through appropriating past artworks.

Flynn's art practice serves to stimulate thoughts and feelings of transcendence - a moving between worlds, while foregrounding the abject nature of the female body and its destiny to return to the earth. She distorts her face to explore notions of motherhood, beauty, decay, life cycles, and what Bulgarian French psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva calls the abject. The abject is what transgresses societal constructed borders and creates a feeling of disgust in its viewer.

All are welcome to attend the opening reception 23 Thursday January, 5pm-7pm.

Date	Times
Thu 23 Jan	10:00am - 4:00pm
Fri 24 Jan	10:00am - 4:00pm
Tue 28 Jan	10:00am - 4:00pm
Wed 29 Jan	10:00am - 4:00pm
Thu 30 Jan	10:00am - 4:00pm
Fri 31 Jan	10:00am - 4:00pm
Tue 4 Feb	10:00am - 4:00pm
Wed 5 Feb	10:00am - 4:00pm
Thu 6 Feb	10:00am - 4:00pm
Fri 7 Feb	10:00am - 4:00pm