Artists

Kristy Tinkler’s practice encompasses relief, sculpture, installation, and site-responsive practices and works in Cape Town, South Africa.

She graduated from the National Art School in 1998, receiving the Sculpture Prize, and produced early site-responsive works for Sculpture by the Sea. After moving to the UK in 2004, She completed an MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art in 2009. While in the UK, presented solo projects at the University of Suffolk’s Waterfront Gallery, London’s Vitrine Gallery, WW Gallery Patio Projects, Quare Offsite Projects, Shift Gallery, and Dalston Pier.

Her residencies include Art Omi (New York), Brazier’s International Workshop (Oxfordshire), Curfew Tower (Northern Ireland), and PassaggiAtina (Italy). Commissions include Small Scale Survival, the inaugural exhibition at Aid & Abet Gallery, Cambridge, and An Act in Parts, a three part moving artwork sited across Nottingham University Park, Brazier’s Park, Oxfordshire, and Spitalfields City Farm, London. In 2024 she relocated to Cape Town, presenting a solo exhibition at the Association of Visual Artists Gallery in March 2026.

In Residence at Bundanon

I plan to create a space between what will be experienced at Bundanon and what has been a current through my work in recent years. I will feed this between space by walking, drawing, engaging with the landscape and people. I will search out local materials to express this space, potentially creating objects through casting to create a holistic transformation. I am interested in how the present can be shaped by recontextualising the past and future. I do this by questioning and reevaluating modes and structures we consider fixed. Recently I have used waste materials to evoke the gravitas of classical fragments, referencing collective embodiment while destabilising their implied hierarchies.