Christine Kinsey (born October 1942) is a Welsh artist, author and curator, now based in

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. She was the co-founder and artistic director of Chapter Workshops and Centre for the Arts, Cardiff, now called

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Biography

Kinsey was born in Pont-y-moel, and 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'' (a sense of feeling, being Welsh). Her touring solo show, ''Cymreictod – Women of Wales'' (1989–91), was reviewed in the magazine ''

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''. Kinsey also examines the depiction of women within a western

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culture. Her work is represented in the

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in London, the

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in Aberystwyth,

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in Swansea, Contemporary Art Society of Wales in Cardiff and

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in Newport.

Published Work

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 (Welsh and English) 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.

Publications

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

1995 ''Just Good Friends – Towards Lesbian and Gay Theology of relationships.'' Elisabeth Stuart (Mowbray). 2004 ''Beyond the Difference – Welsh Literature in Comparative Contexts.'' Editors Alyce von Rothkirch and Daniel Williams (University of Wales Press, Cardiff). 2005 ''Vualiuotas Bučinys / Veiled Kiss.'' Menna Elfyn: (Vaga Vilnius, Lithuania). 2018 ''Women, Identity and Religion in Wales Theology, Poetry, Story''. Manon Ceridwen James, University of Wales Press. 2019 ''Rocking the Boat''. Angela V John – Modern Wales Series Editor. Francesca Rhydderch – Parthian, Cardigan. 2021 ''Cyfrinachau / Eluned Phillips.'' Golygwyd gyda Rhagymadrodd gan Menna Elfyn – HONNO Clasuron. 2023 ''Notes from a Eucharistic Life''. Manon Ceridwen James. Cinnamon Press.

Book - Magazine references

1990 Spare Rib Magazine Issue 211 1999 Certain Welsh Artists; Seren, Poetry Wales Press Ltd, Bridgend. 2005 Imaging the Imagination; An exploration of the relationship between the image and the word in the art of Wales. Gwasg Gomer Press 2005 2006 Planet magazine Issue 179 Review of exhibition Ymddiddan / Colloquy 2006 Re:Imaging Wales; A Yearbook of the Visual Arts. Editor Hugh Adams. Seren, Poetry Wales Press Ltd, Bridgend 2009 Planet Magazine Issue 193 - Article on Chapter Art Centre 2010 Biblical Art from Wales; Sheffield Phoenix Press. . pages 314 / 315 / 316 2013 R.S. Thomas: Serial Obsessive: M. Wyn Thomas. University of Wales Press. . 2015 Post-War to Post Modern; Dictionary of Artists in Wales. Page 146; Gomer, Llandysul.

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kinsey, Christine 1942 births Living people 20th-century Welsh painters 21st-century Welsh painters 20th-century Welsh women artists 21st-century Welsh women artists People from Pontypool Welsh women painters 20th-century British women painters 21st-century British women painters 21st-century British painters