Kristy Hussey is a contemporary Australian sculptor and assemblage artist.
It is from within a 500 metre radius of Kristy Husseyβs home studio in Naarm (Melbourne) that she sources the discarded, domestic objects used in her figurative sculptures. She stacks found objects that are familiar to her childhood home into humanistic columns. The work comments on her childhood memories, and sense of fragility, rebelliousness and resilience. She graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2023 where she studied under the internationally acclaimed Hoda Afshar and Eugenia Lim who instilled in Kristy a passion for experimentation and a confidence in her unusual practice. She was shortlisted for the National Emerging Artist Prize in 2021, The Wyndham Art Prize in 2023 and, from over 1770 entries, the Australian Womenβs Art Prize in 2024. She has had five solo exhibitions between Melbourne and Sydney including at Michael Reid Northern Beaches and the Vitrine Gallery at Craft Victoria. She is currently conducting research for a new body of work and hoping to travel overseas to assist in its development.
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