Biography

Kiran McKinnon is an abstract painter who lives and works in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland. She studied in London, UK and Auckland, NZ, gaining an MFA (1st class hons) from the Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland.

Her work engages with experience and memory, particularly of the sensations of the natural world. Her unique processes of painting in acrylic on raw canvas involve spray, wash, wet on wet brushwork, and large quantities of water. This weathering of the canvas, mimics in many ways the ephemeral processes the paintings invoke.

 

Kiran has been a finalist in the Wallace Art Awards, and the Estuary Art and Ecology Award. She has works held by the University of Auckland Art Collection, the Wallace Arts Trust, and in various private collections throughout New Zealand.

 

Available Works
  • Kiran McKinnon, For the wild geese (high in the clean, blue air), 2024
    For the wild geese (high in the clean, blue air), 2024$7,500 incl. GST
  • Kiran McKinnon, Northern Lights, 2024
    Northern Lights, 2024$2,250 incl. GST
  • Kiran McKinnon, Little Green, 2024
    Little Green, 2024$2,250 incl. GST
  • Kiran McKinnon, Cloudbreak, 2024
    Cloudbreak, 2024$3,750 incl. GST
  • Kiran McKinnon, Sometimes there'll be sorrow, 2024
    Sometimes there'll be sorrow, 2024$7,000 incl. GST
  • Kiran McKinnon, Boiling Point, 2023
    Boiling Point, 2023$9,500 incl. GST
  • Kiran McKinnon, A line of Flight, 2023
    A line of Flight, 2023$9,500 incl. GST
  • Kiran McKinnon, Underwater looking up, 2022
    Underwater looking up, 2022$1,950 incl. GST
  • Kiran McKinnon, Staring at the sun, 2022
    Staring at the sun, 2022$1,950 incl. GST
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