Kiki Stickl paints and draws. Her paintings deal with space, movement and the perception of landscape, specifically landscape in an extended sense as a field of research of the relationship between the self and the world. Stickl's paintings and drawings are sceneries of lines, colour and movement. Fields and spaces - sometimes blurred as if seen from a train at speed - contrast with clearly defined expanses, calm shapes in layers of colour in which the eye seems to lose itself in the depth.

Photographs of landscapes, newspaper cuttings or incidentally taken images of everyday life, such as torn down billboard posters or whitewashed shop windows, serve as basic raw material for her work. The result is a transformation of landscape into a poetic space, a compression of the seen and the experienced.

Kiki, who came from Germany for a one year working tour in the UK and Ireland started her project at Wysing Arts Centre in October 2007 : "LANDS END", a series of oil paintings on canvas and drawings will be her response to the UK's landscape and the old English tradition of landscape painting.

Stickl was born 1964. She studied Art and Philosophy in Munich. In 2002- 2005 she was awarded a studio-grant by the Bavarian Ministry of Arts and Science Research and has been commissioned for painting projects in public space. She has exhibited nationally and internationally in several group and solo exhibitions and has work in private and Public Collections including Bayrische Staatsgem desammlung.

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