Artists

Krystal Lenore Hurst is a Worimi/Warrimay woman raised in Taree and Forster on New South Wales’s Mid North Coast, with family ties to the Biripi Peoples on her mother’s side. Her father is from Aotearoa, New Zealand, and she also has Chinese, Scottish and Irish Ancestry.

Working across contemporary jewellery, fibres and print, Krystal’s multidisciplinary practice explores the intersections of identity, colonisation, memory, and the environment. Informed by her background in national parks, arts education and museum collections, her work reflects a deep engagement with place, cultural continuity, and reclamation. Krystal is currently studying a Bachelor of Contemporary Indigenous Australian Art at Griffith University on Yuggera and Turrbal land.
 

In Residence at Bundanon

During the residency I’m interested in developing a body of work centred on our plant kin by exploring native plant species and relationality. I intend to listen, explore textures, shapes and forms in contemporary jewellery and seek ways of incorporating and centring language, Worimi knowledges, and culture. I’m looking forward to making new connections with fellow artists and the land while on Dharawal and Dhurga Country.