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Stephen Kirin

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I have been bilingual in art and English since nursery school and have been exploring the universal human things; love, sex, illness, divorce, marriage, children, death etc in these languages perpetually. I am running out of words, but the art never ends.

I use art to translate me and those around me into a visualisation of one small cogs place in the machine and continue to do so. This informs every waking and sleeping moment. I work across all mediums, I explore any idea this way. In the past, this has included everything from re-routing water claimed to be owned by ‘Thames Water’ back into the Thames to boiling an egg with words, action and music choreographed into a mathematical chaos symphony. I have painted personal struggle and joy, sculpted time and place and written formulas, short fiction and poetry that narrate reference points through psycho-sexual domains. My practice breathes the same air as Surrealism, is rooted in alchemy, chance and the automatic and references the unconscious, but occasionally draws back into representations of time, perhaps to play a part in a greater design.

I contribute to various publications; Patricide, Peculiar Mormyrid and La Vertebre et Le  Rossignol. As part of arts universal potential, I’ve used it to illuminate theories of recovery in one of my professional lives as a psychiatric nurse. The resulting film supported by Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust and agencies such as Artheads, Focus 12 and Turning Point, was screened at the 2015 Portobello Film Festival. I have also written about ‘outsider art’, drawing on first hand interviews with  artists working in this field, and challenging emerging corporate themes.

Multi-story Egg as shown at Portobello Film Festival 2015

I now work as a full time artist and am preparing for exhibition opportunities and the continuation of the universal.

1985 – Foundation Course at Braintree, Essex

1986-1989 – BA Hons Fine Art at North East London Polytechnic, now the University of East London

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The magicians daughter is part of a new group of work on a small scale using pen,ink and suminagashi techniques on handmade paper.She will be displayed for the first time at next months Suffolk open studio event chez Kirin,keep checking for more updates soon.#suminagashi #collaborativeart #penandink #magician #suffolkopenstudios #thekirinsart #suffolk #artforsale #femalemodel #gaze
‘Cardamine Dance’
70 square face , collaged prints #collage #prints #face #cubomania #portrait #collaborativeart #chance #suffolk #suffolkopenstudios #thekirinsart
The Angle Gallery in St Johns St Bury St Edmunds is now holding stock of the 2 high definition Giclee prints that we have had made of subject matter with local interest both medieval and Dickensian.They are on sale for £80 and £65 respectively and 10% of any proceeds goes to St Mary’s and The Theatre Royal as a way for us to support them a little via Art and thank them for the inspiration.These prints are finished to a high quality as you can see from parts of the production process!..The Dickens image was started in-situ during an open air production of the Christmas carol and his face showed itself during the Artistic process. He wrote part of the Pickwick papers in the Angel Hotel and gave a talk in the Athenaeum which is the backdrop of our finished piece.The medieval history of the Gabriel carving in St Mary’s has been discussed before but do pop over to our website (link in bio) and read the blog for more on our inspirational journey towards the finished Gabriel painting.
Narcissus after Caravaggio by Stephen and Lorna Kirin
Our first 2023 collaboration uses a Caravaggio inspired Narcissus reference , at an advanced stage but a little way to go yet😊..we’ll keep you all updated on progress #caravaggio #narcissus #narcissi #collaborativeart #watercolourpainting #watercolourpencils #thekirinsart #suffolkopenstudios #originalart #suffolk

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