Kirralee Robinson is an artist who works on the unceded lands of Magandjin/Meanjin (Brisbane) and Tulmur (Ipswich), Australia. Her sculptural practice engages the happenstance of light, optics, and tactility. She draws influence from speculative science fiction and the attentive discipline of materials conservation, grounded in a philosophy of ecofeminism.
Kirralee channels a sensitivity to the climate emergency through reckoning with ubiquitous material waste such as metals, plastics and processed timbers. Through caring actions such as conscious cleaning and love poems, Kirralee honours this waste as sacred, tracing each fragment of matter back to the earth from which it came.
Drawing on her fascination with science fiction and its undercurrent of hope, Kirralee imagines portals, pipes, and vortices as immersive spaces for psychological escape and renewal. Her sculptures see light as material and metaphor, creating moments that suspend linear time and invite playful engagement between physics and the mind. These sculptures collaborate with the forces that hold our universe, illuminating the ever-changing present and gently reorienting the viewer through a space of energised stillness.
Fuelled by a passion for material care and a desire for an interconnected life with the more-than-human, Kirralee’s site responsive artworks amplify the subtleties of daily existence in real time and create moments for speculation into the unseen.