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ArtEvol 2025 / Kirin Crooks
Yang Mucen , 2025 Charcoal and acrylic on canvas 140 × 160 × 3.5 cm
Kirin Crooks is a British artist and graduate of the Slade School of Fine Art. Crooks’s practice employs the visual language of domestic memory to map present identity. Curated fragments of a maternal environment are transformed into broader explorations of contemporary identity, beauty and autonomous desire. Working with mixed media processes of painting and monoprint in acrylic, charcoal, soft pastel and ink, Crooks builds and scrapes away layers, both technically and conceptually, reworking imprints of the past into new, self-determined narratives.
Artwork Introduction
Yang Mucen was created during a convergence of events that shaped its meaning. Kirin Crooks built up and accumulated layers of colour and marks, allowing the history of the work’s making to remain visible. These accumulated traces, each layer a decision and gesture, speak to inheritance and memory. The work serves as a permanent, unintended record of a pivotal day, reflecting how personal history intertwines with artistic practice and sometimes reveals meanings retrospectively. The piece investigates maternal influence and domestic fragments while also functioning as a tribute to lineage. It is named after Kirin Crooks’s maternal grandfather: Yang Mucen.
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