Christine Kinsey

This article is about the Welsh artist, author and curator. For the American mathematician, see L. Christine Kinsey.

Christine Kinsey

Christine Kinsey (born October 1942) 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.

Biography

Christine Kinsey was born October 1942 ^{[1] [2]} in Pont-y-moel. ^[3]

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 ^[3] including what it was like to grow up female in the industrial valleys of south east Wales; ^[4] and Cymreictod (a sense of feeling, being Welsh). Her touring solo show, Cymreictod – Women of Wales (1989–91), was reviewed in the magazine Spare Rib . ^[5] Kinsey also examines the depiction of women within a western Christian culture. ^[6]

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. ^[1]

She was the co-founder and artistic director of Chapter Workshops and Centre for the Arts, Cardiff, now called Chapter Arts Centre. ^{[7] [8] [9]}

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. ISBN   1-84323-433-5
• 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. ISBN   978-1-9999522-6-6
• 2023 Artist / Author – Christine Kinsey; Truth, Lies & Alibis – Encounters in Images and Words by Christine Kinsey. Published by The H’mm Foundation, Swansea. ISBN   978-1-9999522-5-9

Catalogues

• 1986 A Pilgrims Progress in Painting and Drawing.
• 1989 Cymreictod-Menywod Cymru / Women of Wales; ISBN   0-9514752-0-7
• 1994 Bywyd Arall / Another Life; Exhibition catalogue ISBN   0-9514752-1-5                  
• 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. ISBN   978-0-9928178-0-0

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. ISBN   1-84323-433-5
• 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. ISBN   978-0-9927560-9-3

Images commissioned for book covers

• 1995 Just Good Friends – Towards Lesbian and Gay Theology of relationships. Elisabeth Stuart (Mowbray). ISBN   0-264-67328-X
• 2004 Beyond the Difference – Welsh Literature in Comparative Contexts. Editors Alyce von Rothkirch and Daniel Williams (University of Wales Press, Cardiff). ISBN   0-7083-1886-X
• 2005 Vualiuotas Bučinys / Veiled Kiss. Menna Elfyn: (Vaga Vilnius, Lithuania). ISBN   5-415-01786-0
• 2018 Women, Identity and Religion in Wales Theology, Poetry, Story. Manon Ceridwen James, University of Wales Press. ISBN   978-1-78683-193-4
• 2019 Rocking the Boat. Angela V John – Modern Wales Series Editor. Francesca Rhydderch – Parthian, Cardigan. ISBN   978-1-912681-44-0
• 2021 Cyfrinachau / Eluned Phillips. Golygwyd gyda Rhagymadrodd gan Menna Elfyn – HONNO Clasuron. ISBN   978-1-912905-41-6
• 2023 Notes from a Eucharistic Life. Manon Ceridwen James. Cinnamon Press. ISBN   978-1-78864-984-1

References

1. Jones, Peter W.; Hitchman, Isabel (2015). Post-War to Post-Modern: A Dictionary of Artists in Wales. Llandysul: Gomer Press. pp. 446–447. ISBN   978-1-84851-876-6.
2. Osmond, Osi Rhys (Summer 2010). "Narrow Skies and Tilting Perspectives". Planet: the Welsh Internationalist. 199: 35.
3. Clarkson, Jonathan (2006). "Mind the Gap". Planet: the Welsh Internationalist. 179: 119–121.
4. Price-Owen, Anne (November 1994). "Valley Girls". Planet: the Welsh Internationalist. 107: 16–22.
   - Hourahane, Shelagh (1999). Maps, Myths and the Politics of Art in Certain Welsh Artists. Bridgend: Seren. pp. 75–76. ISBN   1-85411-251-1.
5. Simpson, Penny (January 1990). "Cymreictod - Welsh women; paintings and drawings by Chris Kinsey". Spare Rib (211): 31.
6. Martin O’Kane, John Morgan-Guy (2010). Biblical Art from Wales. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press. pp. 314–316. ISBN   978-1-906055-74-5.
7. Osmond, Osi Rhys (Spring 2009). "Chapter: Forty Years of Radical Cultural Activism". Planet: the Welsh Internationalist. 194: 28–37.
8. Hutchison, Robert (1977). Three Arts Centres: A Study of South Hill Park, the Gardner Centre and Chapter. London: Arts Council of Great Britain. pp. 73–95. ISBN   0-7287-0138-3.
9. Heywood Thomas, Nicola. "A New Chapter". BBC. BBC. Retrieved 12 December 2016.

Further reading

• 1990 Spare Rib Magazine Issue 211
• 1999 Certain Welsh  Artists; Seren,  Poetry Wales Press Ltd, Bridgend. ISBN   1-85411-251-1
• 2005 Imaging the Imagination; An exploration of the relationship between the image and the word in the art of Wales. Gwasg Gomer Press  2005 ISBN   1-84323-433-5
• 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 ISBN   1-85411-406-9
• 2009 Planet Magazine Issue 193 -  Article  on Chapter Art Centre
• 2010 Biblical Art from Wales; Sheffield Phoenix Press. ISBN   978-1-906055-74-5. pages 314 / 315 / 316
• 2013 R.S. Thomas: Serial Obsessive: M. Wyn Thomas. University of Wales Press. ISBN   978-0-7083-2613-8.
• 2015 Post-War to Post Modern; Dictionary of Artists in Wales. Page 146; Gomer, Llandysul. ISBN   978-1-84851-876-6

External links

• 1 artwork by or after Christine Kinsey at the Art UK site
• Official website