Kieran (They/them, b. 1992, Yuin Land - Nowra, NSW) is an artist, designer, and creative producer. Their practice spans across photography, textiles, performance, and graphic design. Kieran’s research seeks to examine inclusive and sustainable creative practices at the intersections of New Formalism in Photography, Environmentalism, Solarpunk and Patchwork movements within a trans-neuroqueer framework. 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 near futures, ways of living and proposals to get there. Ultimately, their practice seeks to contribute to the growing literature on trans-neuroqueer lived experiences, and sustainable and inclusive creative practices; Resources that were not readily accessible to them as a young person. They live and work across the lands of Wurundjuri Woy Wurung people.
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), and Verge Gallery (University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, 2022). 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).