PROFILE
DR CHRISTINE KIRKEGARD
PhD (JCU), MCA (UOW), BFA (QCA), ADFA (QCA), Cert T (KGTC)
Dr Christine Kirkegard is a visual artist and educator. Her art training and academic profile extends from Diploma and BA Fine Art Queensland College of Art to later Master of Creative Arts (painting & drawing) Woolongong University and PhD Doctor of Philosophy (Thesis & Painting Practice) James Cook University. She has exhibited over a period of 24 years. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions (e.g. Cintra Galleries 1990s, Metro Arts 1980's, Qld Regional Galleries 2009- 2011) and group exhibitions nationally and overseas including recent prestigious National Award exhibitions such as Tattersall's Landscape Prize where she has been a regular finalist and the Westpac Art Prize where she was a finalist and award winner. Christine works in a variety of media while specializing in painting the landscape and the human form. Her work is in private and corporate collections in Australia, Singapore and the USA.
Recent exhibitions include Dec 2010 - Jan 2011 Contemporary Queensland Painters- "Evolving Traditions" Exhibition Redcliffe City Moreton Bay Regional Gallery 2009 - Gympie Regional Gallery - Solo Drawing Exhibition "The Landscape & The Nude"2009 Art Promotions Queensland Selected Painters Waterfront Place 2010 Salisbury Studios Inaugral Exhibition, 2011 - 15 Artists Exhibition Redcliffe City Regional Gallery.
With extensive experience as an art educator Christine established and was Director of the Arts Academy QLD from 1990-2006. She was also the senior drawing and painting instructor for a wide range of Professional level Drawing and Painting programs having built a reputation for the quality of Fine Art programs delivered to industry, artists, teachers and the general public. Christine has worked as a sessional lecturer at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University since the 1980's most recently teaching Drawing Bachelor of Animation in the Department of Animation, Griffith Film School, (QCA) 2006-2011 and custom designed advanced drawing and painting programs for Industry. She has served on National and State Visual Arts Advisory Boards, presented papers at Art Education national forums and undertaken curatorial projects for large scale public art exhibitions. She is a member of a number of professional associations including the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation, Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Association and RQAS.
Currently Christine is engaged in private studio practice completing a body of drawings & paintings on the landscape and the nude while continuing part time lecturing in drawing and supervising Doctorate students at QCA, Griffith University. Now largely absorbed in painting her academic research interests continue extending from earlier PhD investigation of the relationship between primary individual experience of natural environments, creative art practice, literate painting systems and universal conceptions of nature.
Selected works of Christine Kirkegard may viewed on this site gallery