Kristina Huxley’s work is situated within contemporary painting practice. Her works explore human perception and sensing of indeterminacy, impossibility and change within the process of image making. Her practice is an act of collaboration between tradition and technology, running perpendicular to our digitally imaged saturated world. Holding traces of the realities and narratives of our contemporary time, her work is driven by encounters with live ecological, political and cultural systems observed from within our turning, unstable and volatile world.

Huxley has been making site sensitive paintings and installations since 1995, that respond to their physical, historical and ideological contexts. Subject matters that evade definition and measure, description and documentation become sources of transience detained as constant and permanent dimensions within her paintings. Painting for Huxley is sensitive: weighted by its own history it is viewed as an interactive intervention with inherent capacity to slow things down, collapse time and make physical the human scale of seeing and sensing.

With subjects such as heat, dust and debris, she hijacks painting’s unfathomable and innate abilities: radiance, subversion, hybridisation and ambiguity, to make visibility and invisibility inseparable and real. Activated by the public and context her paintings are in motion, changing surface quality and colour as the viewer moves and observes. They produce surface territories that are fleeting and test the limitations of the still image: they are permanent yet permanently changing, delivering dialogue between phenomenology and ontology, perception and memory, the visual and physical and the contemporary sensing of temporal and atemporal worlds.

Kristina Huxley (Irish, b.1973) lives and works in Dublin. Her works have been exhibited within Ireland and internationally including The Royal Hibernian Academy, Temple Bar Gallery, The Butler Gallery, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, The Irish Museum of Modern Art and Rothko Museum in Latvia. Her work is held in public, corporate and private art collections and was recently acquired for the permanent collection at the Rothko Museum, Latvia and The Arts Council of Ireland. Kristina is a graduate of the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University (BFA, 1995) and at NCAD (MFA, 1999).