Kieran Forster

Brisbane-based artist Kieran Forster uses his parallel passions for painting and psychiatry to develop his unique artistic aesthetic that seeks to explore the beauty and meaning within the human condition. Experimenting between the abstract and the representational, Forster works to break free from rationalistic thinking, and instead, tap into a more fundamental paradigm. In doing so, Forster transforms his art into a more phenomenological experience in which the viewer can partake. 

Born in 1970, Forster completed degrees in the fields of philosophy, law, and medicine at the University of Queensland. As a doctor, he specialised in psychiatry and eventually focused on ADD and ASD, but primarily in the pursuit of meaning; at the same time, though, he used his non-practice hours to channel a similar search into his art. Further fuelling his artistic development has been his extensive travel around the world, from Southeast Asia to Europe to the United States. His art has been featured in six solo exhibitions in recent years.

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