Creative Force: A podcast with exceptional women
When COVID 19 moved our world’s inside, perceptions about where we live and work changed forever.
The luxury of online connections seeded the evolution of this podcast exposing me to a global community of incredible women – artists, writers, cultural activists, and Indigenous leaders.
I asked them "What are the creative forces that drive you?" Every single one of them said “Where I live”.
From the forests of Ireland, a tiny village in Scotland, the mountains, vast farming plains and lush sub-tropical north in Australia. For these women landscape – sea, sky, rock and river is the muse that inspires them to make their mark on the world.
I can't wait for you to meet them.
Creative Force: A podcast with exceptional women
Creative Force: Kirsty Whiten
Today we head to the forest to a tiny village outside Edinburgh to meet Creative Force visual artist Kirsty Whiten.
Kirsty’s art is provocative, tender, exquisite and bold traversing painting, drawing, collage and most recently sculpture and short film. Kirsty has crafted a rich, creative life creating large and small scale works that explore ritual, acts of transgression, disrupting gender and identity politics along the way. Her meticulous treatment of her subjects is a kind of reverence, she uses the detail, time-hungry technique and ambiguity to deepen the emotional impact, striving to make frank images and to communicate very directly and intimately
Represented by Arusha Gallery in Edinburgh, she has exhibited work across Europe, Australia and the U.K participated in cross-disciplinary collaborations in New York and Denmark, including the completion of a gable-end mural in Tay Street Lane, Dundee, with text artist Fandangoekid in 2019. Kirsty trained at Edinburgh Art School and is a life-drawing at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art.
Her latest book SHOOKETH is available on her website.
I can’t wait for you to meet her.
#creative force was recorded on Wiradjuri Country in Bathurst, New South Wales.
Hosted by Kate Smith with Audio Engineer Tim Roebuck. Music by the magnificent Smith and Jones was recorded at Shelter Studios with Audio Engineer Rick Turnock.
Thanks for listening.
