More from Team Recoat!

Kirsty Whiten’s distinctive warped paintings and drawings have earned a year’s residency in Paris, numerous awards and bursaries and been exhibited as far a field as Cologne, Den Haag, Austria and Melbourne. Her monkey relics and other twisted drawings have appeared in magazines and on blogs around the world, including Juxtapoz and Empty. Her most recent series of work depicts nude feral families in intimate nesting scenes. The work will be on show at StoleSpace Gallery in London from the 1st of September 2011.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirstywhiten/sets/

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kirsty-Whiten/187569244594660

Interview-

> Do you have a favourite piece of art that you created? 

I get wildly excited about what I’m making and have totally outrageous internal dilalogue about it, then I finish it and come back to earth with a thump. 

> Do you have a favourite medium to work in? 

 I like to to do little finely finished pencil drawings, and I love to work large scale in paint - to block in with acrylic and add layers of oil and varnish. It’s great to move from lots of elbow room to tight control and back again.

> Who or what inspires you? 

The people I meet and watch, trying to make sense of them.

> What are you working on right now?

A set of big paintings for an exhibition at Stolenspace; Feral Family. They are kinda rough painted woodlands cut through with day-glo and varnish colour glazes, tight little family scenes taking place, where everyone is naked and surviving, for the time being. I am just weeks away from the deadline and going a bit cross-eyed, but I am so excited about them as a set of images. I think, from the reaction from my visitors, that this might be powerful stuff…

Kirsty’s print is featured in the latest exhibition at Recoat in their Team Recoat launch. You can view and buy each of the prints here- http://recoat.bigcartel.com/category/team-recoat. They are A2 and only £80 each!