Quinn’s visual art practice examines identity as an ongoing negotiation between what is remembered, imagined and lived. From her large-scale oil paintings to embodied performances, the self-portrait is used as a site of enquiry throughout, investigating the ways in which identity can be presented and transformed.
Quinn revisits formative experiences, not as fixed recollections, but as evolving narratives that exist between memory, imagination and reality. This is particularly demonstrated through her oil paintings, where the artist’s technical skill in painting realism is hijacked by the representation of fantastical content, such as mythological allegory and art historical symbolism. In subverting the expectation of verisimilitude, the artist prioritises the nuanced colourings of subjectivity in what is perhaps a more biased yet honest portrayal of the ‘truth’.
