Photo by Kyle Depew
Kirsten Tingle is a Scottish artist and biodesigner based between London and New York. She combines traditional painting and sculpture with cutting edge biofabrication to create living and regenerative art works.
Her work draws from fine art, biodesign, systems thinking, and regenerative design to reimagine creative practice during the climate crisis. In her latest body of work she grows life sized, living mycelium sculptures which fruit, change, and decay throughout their exhibition.
Kirsten holds an MA in Biodesign from Central Saint Martins in London, a BA in Art and English from Pomona College in South California, and completed a four-year certificate program in painting and sculpture at The Art Students League of New York. She has exhibited in the US and Internationally, and completed artist residencies at The Francis Crick Institute, Z/KU, and University of the Arts London.
Kirsten is an alum of the US-UK Fulbright and Sutton Trust US Program.