Kyra Kum-Sing
Kyra Kum-Sing is a Malera Bandjalan, Mitakoodi woman. Kyra has paved a unique and important path within the arts as both an artist and curator.
Kyra has been the curator at Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative for the past four years and has curated a number of significant and acclaimed exhibitions including Boomalli’s 25th Anniversary Mardi Gras Exhibition: Original Box (2019); Warriors for the Environment (2019); inVISIBLE (2020) and Shell It (2021).
Kyra has also curated Deadly Women of Redfern at the National Centre for Indigenous Excellence, the July 2018 program for the MCA Art Bar, Dyarra Murama Guwing (the sun setting red), Lane Cove Gallery (2020) and Golding’s POWER at Blacktown Arts Centre (2021). Kyra is an Encounters Fellow Alumni from the National Museum of Australia.
Kyra has a diverse artistic practice which includes painting, drawing, weaving, sculpture, installations and clothing design. Kyra also works with natural hand-made pigments. She has exhibited her works at Boomalli, Lone Goat Gallery and Red Rattler Theatre.
Kyra is also a consultant for the Aboriginal site heritage and repatriation work on Bandjalan Country in Northern NSW, where she is working on revitalising the Malera Bandjalan language. Kyra has extensive experience working in services for Aboriginal people, including the Aboriginal Medical Service, Redfern; Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal; and the Yabun Festival. Kyra is a passionate advocate for Aboriginal rights and self-determination and the Aboriginal arts and cultural sector.
‘My interdisciplinary art practice about water and light forms my own ritualised creative response to place and its impact on my sense of identity. The Pacific Ocean, the physical boundary between Korea and Australia, defines my geographical and cultural identity, identifiable as a specific geographic entity, yet being comprised of water, simultaneously formless and in a perpetual state of flux. Also, in Korean belief systems, water represents the boundary between the mortal world and the afterlife. Water and ritual have become significant aspects of my practice since my parents passed away. Making work is the way I understand the boundary in the world I live in. It is to understand the relationship between the world and myself. For me, the feeling of insecurity arises from the uncertainties that come with inhabiting not just the boundary between cultures but also between past and present, physical and psychological, life and the afterlife. My art practice has become a way for me to make sense of the untimely loss of my parents and to come to terms with my sense of never fully belonging.’
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