Chris Tynan is a Naarm-based painter, portraitist & visual artist. Their work is engaged with liberation, collaboration, community art-making, and developing accessible practices.
Their larger-than-life-sized oil and metal-leaf works seek to amplify truth, beauty, and hopeful future visions. Other creative responses include body-casting with precious metal, hand-sculpting, icon paintings, live-drawing of performance, digital projection, and a human-size chrysalis from discarded fabric for Snuff Puppets.
Their education has included a mentorship under artist and educator Jonas Ropponen, Feral Queer Camp, and research at Australian Queer Archives. Their ongoing development of a Community Engagement Strategy includes consultation with Arts Access Victoria.
Under the Creative Victoria Creators Fund 2022, Chris spent 6 months developing methods to represent the diversity of disabled, queer and gender variant experiences within their work.
To see unpublished works, please get in touch.
Chris lives and works on Bunurong Country and Wurundjeri Country. They pay respect to Elders, past and present.
