Our Judge for 2010
Dr Christine Kirkegard PhD, MCA, BAFA, ADFA, DipT
Dr Christine Kirkegard is a visual artist and educator. Her art training and academic profile extends from Diploma and BA Fine Art Queensland College of Art to later Master of Creative Arts (painting & drawing) Woolongong University and PhD Doctor of Philosophy (Thesis & Painting practice) James Cook University. She has exhibited over a period of 23 years. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions (e.g. Cintra Galleries 1990s, Metro Arts 1980’s Qld Regional Galleries 2009) and group exhibitions nationally and overseas including recent prestigious National Award exhibitions such as Tattersall’s Landscaping Prize and Westpac Art Prize where she was a finalist.
Christine works in a variety of media while specializing in painting the landscape and the human form. Her work is in private and corporate collections in Australia, Singapore and the USA. Christine established and was Director of the Arts Academy Ed. QLD from 1990-2006. She was also the senior drawing and painting instructor responsible for the design and instruction of a wide range of Professional level and Introductory Drawing and Painting programs, having built a reputation for the quality of Fine Art programs delivered to industry, artists, teachers and the general public. Christine has worked as a sessional lecturer at Qld College of Art, Griffith University and most recently teaching life drawing Bachelor of Animation in the Dept. of Animation, Griffith Film School.
Currently Christine is engaged in private studio practice completing a body of drawings & paintings on the landscape and the nude while continuing lecturing in drawing and post graduate supervision painting at QCA, Griffith University. Now largely absorbed in painting, her academic research interests continue extending from earlier PhD investigation of the relationship between primary individual experience of natural environments, creative art practice, literate painting systems and universal conceptions of nature.