Artists

Kirsty Kross is an eco-feminist artist whose practice centres mostly on the trickster archetype, often using alter egos or speculative, immersive interventions to discuss the anxieties, contradictions and uncomfortable truths of the climate crisis and its poly-crisis effects.

Kross holds a Masters from The Berlin University of the Arts and a Bachelors Degree in Art History from The University of Queensland. She has exhibited/ performed at the National Museum of Norway, Tate Modern, Bergen Assembly, Munch Museum, Norwegian Sculpture Association, Gabrovo Biennial, Swedish Artist’s Association, Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm and Woollahra Gallery in Sydney. From 2000 to 2010 Kirsty Kross was a founding member of the electropunk performance band, Team Plastique that played throughout Europe and Australia at events such as Glastonbury Festival in 2008 and The Big Day Out in 2004 and 2005.

In Residence at Bundanon

I will create a series of performative experiments and text based drawings about a new artistic alter ego that keeps appearing in my work, “The Tropical Goth”. I will also be inspired by:

• Shimmer: Flying Fox in World Peril by Deborah Bird Rose
• Flying foxes and Rainbow lorikeets and their plight in the climate crisis
• Zen Buddhist beliefs particularly from the monk, Thich Hat Hanh about hungry ghosts- individuals that have lost their spiritual roots and are searching for meaning and belonging, but continue to feel disoriented and unhappy