Kerry Cullinan is a West Australian artist living and working in Bassendean. Born in the UK in 1977, Kerry experienced the loss of her father aged ten in a motor vehicle accident leading her family to start a new life in Perth. This significant change in life before and after 1987 lends an often-nostalgic sense for belonging and place. Duality of subjects, paths, and interests reoccur in her life and painting. Emotions hard to articulate are navigated and inspired by expressionist painters such as Munch as well as representational neo-expressionists such as Doig.

'Painterly sketches and collage will often be a way into a work. Journalling can help to understand the process and encourage continuation of meaning and connection to past ideas and progress. But ultimately colour can lead a paintings direction and locate its place within the scope of works that came before and what you saw then, and how it made sense, and it’s this remembering that guides this work. Abstracting an image from the daily news for a reference point. Royal blue the link to the renaissance and the dramatic stage and delicately painting the native spring flowers of place for example; combine the present, the past, the internal and external'.