Christine Kinsey (born October 1942) is a Welsh painter, now based in Pembrokeshire. She was the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Chapter Workshops and Centre of the Arts, Cardiff, now called the

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Biography

Kinsey was born in Pontypool, and has developed a group of female characters who emerge repeatedly in her paintings. These characters enact roles within the themes that she explores in her work including what it was like to grow up female in the industrial valleys of south east Wales; and ''Cymreictod'' (a sense of feeling, being Welsh). Her touring solo show ''Cymreictod – Women of Wales'' 1989-91 was reviewed in the magazine Spare Rib. Kinsey also examines the depiction of women within a western Christian culture. Words and poetry have always been an important influence in Kinsey’s work. In 2014, she curated the exhibition ''Correspondences – contemporary painting in response to the life and writing of R. S. Thomas'' at Plas Glyn-y-Weddw, Pwllheli. The exhibition included work by 14 contemporary artists based in Wales including Kinsey, Osi Rhys Osmond, Iwan Bala, Ivor Davies and Mary Lloyd Jones. The catalogue for the exhibition included poetry by

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and

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. Later the same year, the exhibition was then amalgamated by curator Lynne Crompton with work from artists responding to Dylan Thomas at Oriel Q Gallery, Narberth. At an event to mark R. S. Thomas’ centenary in 2013, Kinsey was invited by event organisers the University of Wales Press and Swansea University professor M Wynn Thomas (R. S. Thomas’ biographer and executor of his literary estate) to talk about the ways in which the poetry of R. S. Thomas has influenced her art. Her work is represented in the

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, London; National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth;

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, Swansea; Contemporary Art Society of Wales, Cardiff; and Newport Museum, Newport.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kinsey, Christine 1942 births Living people 20th-century Welsh painters 21st-century Welsh painters 20th-century Welsh women artists 21st-century Welsh women artists People from Pontypool Welsh women painters