About

Chris Tynan is a Naarm-based painter, portraitist & visual artist. Drawing from an ongoing study of accessibility and liberation, they collaborate with community at the heart of their work. Their larger-than-life-sized oil and metal-leaf works look to amplify truth, beauty, and hopeful future visions. Other creative responses include body-casting with precious metal, live-drawing of performance, digital projection, and a human-size chrysalis from discarded fabric for Snuff Puppets.

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. 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 included consultation with Arts Access Victoria.

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Chris is a white artist living and working on un-ceded Bunurong Country and Wurundjeri Country encompassing land, water and sky. They acknowledge the millennia-old traditions of making and painting on the land they call home, and pay respect to the Elders, past and present. Chris acknowledges Aboriginal sovereignty.