Kirsten Reynolds Artist
Kirsten Reynolds is a British artist who makes works using a wide variety of media. She often works with sound and light and uses electronics, video and found objects to make artworks. Her practice also encompasses drawing, painting, sculpture, collage and print-making. Kirsten Reynolds has often worked in collaboration with other artists and musicians, a working method that began when she joined Bow Gamelan Ensemble in 1990 and worked with artist Paul Burwell making and playing scrap metal instruments and drums.In 1995 Kirsten Reynolds and Ashley Davies formed the 'bleakly titled collaboration' Project Dark an experimental art and music group. Project Dark were invited by writer, musician and curator David Toop to participate in Sonic Boom an international sound art exhibition that took place in 2001 at the Hayward Gallery London.In her work Reynolds seeks the extraordinary in the everyday, a fascination that can be seen in the work Ex Memoria that takes discarded, old-fashioned standard lamps from the charity shops of her home town of St Leonards-on-Sea and combines them with speakers and control systems enabling the recycled lamps to be 'fitfully engaged in squeaky electronic chatter' according to Robert Sandall.