Christian Flynn was born in Innisfail, Queensland, in 1978. He moved around a lot when he was young before coming to Brisbane in 1988. Flynn attended a public school, did one year of an economics degree, scrapped that, then did three years at TAFE studying illustration and then fine art. He went on to get a Bachelor of Fine Art, completing it in 2002, before completing his Course Work Masters with first class Honours in 2007. Both his undergraduate and post-graduate degrees were completed at the Queensland College of Art.
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With my paintings I attempt to track and capture a strain of modernism that has a history and contemporary expression in design, video games and science fiction. I do this to counter the notion that modernism, particularly painting, is a solely progressive, authoritarian and puritanical phenomenon. Recently I have introduced simple organic forms into my visual vocabulary to counter the severe tone of the hard edge elements that often dominate my work. I have also begun to re-explore the sculptural modes of my earlier work that continue to inform my current production. The synthesis of these various visual languages is my goal.
Image: No win scenario, 195 x 148cm, 2010
