Kieran (They/them) is an artist and designer who’s practice spans across photography, fashion, textiles, performance, and graphic design. Their research seeks to examine trans-neuorqueer ecologies where queerness, fashion, environmentalism, patchwork and photography’s new formalism intersect. Their work reflects on themes of queer identity, familial histories, gift economies, and environmental crises as accompanied by experiences of desire, grief, hope, intimacy, love, self-awareness, rage and vulnerability. Kieran aims to present provocations that spark hopeful, sustainable and inclusive visions of not-so-distant futures, ways of living in the present moment, and the conversations that emerge across time. They live and work across the lands of Wurundjuri Woy Wurung people and are currently completing a Master of Fine Art at Monash Art, Design and Architecture.
Kieran has co presented creative workshops with Twenty10, UNSW Galleries, Arc @ UNSW Ltd, Granville Arts Centre and MCA Youth Committee. They Have exhibited locally and interstate in solo and group exhibitions, public artworks, fellowships, prizes, festivals and associated public programs. Recent highlights include finalist NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship hosted at Artspace Sydney (Woolloomooloo, NSW, 2018), finalist National Photography Prize hosted at the Murray Art Museum Albury (Albury, NSW, 2018); Solo exhibitions at BLiNDSIDE (Melbourne, VIC, 2018), ANCA (Dickson, ACT, 2018), Sawtooth ARI (Launceston, TAS, 2019), Peacock Gallery (Auburn, NSW, 2019), Verge Gallery (University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, 2022), Annandale Galleries (Annandale, NSW, 2023), Incinerator Gallery (Moonee Ponds, VIC, 2025) and Trocadero Projects (Footscray, VIC, 2025). Kieran was selected for the 2019 Queer Development Program at Performance Space (Sydney, NSW) performing for Queer Nu Work. Kieran has created public art commissions for City of Sydney Siteworks: Creative Hoardings program (Sydney, NSW, 2019-present), the Inner West Council Newtown Art Seat (Newtown, NSW, 2021), and Transport for NSW Safer Cities Program in collaboration with Sydney World Pride and Culture Capitol (Newtown, NSW, 2023).