Kristin McFarlane

Kristin McFarlane has completed a Bachelor of Arts [Graphic Design], a Graduate Diploma [Ceramic Design, Glass] and a Master of Fine Arts [by research-glass] at Monash University in Caulfield. She has been exhibiting for over a decade in solo and group exhibitions throughout Australia and internationally in New York, London, Glasgow, Milan and Portand, USA. McFarlane was a selected finalist in the 2007 Jutta Cuny-Franz Memorial Award, the 2006 Bullseye E-merge Competition and the 2004 Craft Victoria ‘Craft-in-Site’, ‘Capturing Memory’ exhibition. In 2006, 2007 and 2008 she was commissioned to create the National and State trophies for the Australian of the Year Awards. Her work is represented in the collections of the Bombay Sapphire Foundation, UK; Monash University; The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Carlton; Bacardi Limited Australia; City of Moreland and the Australian National Glass Collection, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, NSW.

Kristin McFarlane’s work explores the concepts of time, memory, fragility and longing. Her works contain silver gelatin photographic imagery, fusing historical and personal narratives within layers of glass. By recreating these moments in glass the concept of capturing memories in a vessel to treasure and preserve becomes possible. Images of loved ones, architectural details and handwriting are transformed into an ‘essence’ allowing a permanent memory of an event, time and place to be recorded. The permanent state of the glass vessel allows these sentiments to be transformed into precious time capsules.