Above: Video • Fiona Kinsella • LIVE Painting • Biennale internationale du lin de Portneuf, QC. Oil on linen. Artist Residency.
“To an artist, a picture is both a sum of ideas and a blurry memory of ‘pushing paint,’ breathing fumes, dripping oils and wiping brushes, smearing and diluting and mixing.”
– James Elkins
“Painting, sculpture, performance. Three technically separate artistic media that, for all our post-post-modern posturing about cross-disciplinary practice, still tend to exist distinct from one another. Fiona Kinsella, who does consider herself a mixed-media artist, straddles not only the already contentious line between painting and sculpture, but connects both to a performative element. As James Elkins, the highly respected art historian and author of such books as What Painting Is – from which the quote above is taken – states, a picture, or painting, is as much a process, a physical action on an object, as it is an image or idea.”
~ Kendra Ainsworth, Curator, The Art Gallery of Mississauga.
Above: Video • Fiona Kinsella • LIVE Painting at the Art Gallery of Mississauga, ON Canada. No sound. Oil on canvas. Artist residency at the AGM and Mississauga Public Library.
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Fiona Kinsella • visual artist 