Christine Kinsey is an artist and writer, Co-founder and the first woman Artistic Director of Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. Her latest book Truth, Lies & Alibis reassesses the way in which women have been portrayed within western Celtic/Christian culture and how this portrayal has influenced the way women are perceived and how they perceive themselves. Her work explores Cymreictod, the feeling of being Welsh, as a woman growing up in a working class area of the industrial valleys of south Wales. Her images and words aim to reinterpret the representation of women within western culture through a feminist imagination. She has developed a group of female characters who ‘bear witness’ to how women have been socially, economically and sexually exploited, pictorially mis-represented and as creatives under-represented.
Christine Kinsey has three published books, Imaging the Imagination – An exploration of the relationship between the image and the word in the art of Wales – which she initiated and co-edited with Dr Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan and was published by Gwasg Gomer in 2005. She is the curator and editor of the bilingual book HON Artistiaid Benywaidd yng Nghymru / Women Artists in Wales, published by the H’mm Foundation in 2022. Her book Truth, Lies & Alibis – Images and Words by Christine Kinsey was published by the H’mm Foundation in 2023. She has also contributed to a range of publications. (see website)
Christine Kinsey was Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, Co-Founder of Artists and Designers in Wales Association, Artistic Advisor to Cardiff City Council on the re-development of Cardiff City Centre. She has had five national and four international solo touring exhibitions and her work is in collections in Belgium, the Caribbean, Catalonia, Eire, England, Lithuania, Scotland, Switzerland, Wales, USA. Her work is represented in National Collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea; Newport Museum and Art Gallery, Gwent. She has initiated, curated and organised Exhibitions and Festivals which have included collaborative work by artists and writers including the R.S. Thomas 100th Anniversary Festival, META, a touring exhibition featuring work by poets and painters, which was exhibited in five venues internationally and paintings from her series ‘Llais’ were exhibited in the Opera House, Vilnius in partnership with Menna Elfyn.
