Kyla Ring
Lives and works in Sydney, Australia.
Born in Wagga Wagga, Australia 1975.
Kyla works across mediums of drawings on paper, installation, sculpture, animation and textiles.
Her drawings are a form linear meditation on time and often she works in pairs to create conversations. They are not quite inverse impressions of each other and it is the slight discrepancies that create the dialogue of interest in the drawn conversations. Kyla’s work is interested in what she calls these discrepancies ‘miscommunicaes’, the moments that slip through comprehension dropouts in calls, the signifiers of body language lost to a head turn or foot itch, the words not spoken, the wrinkle in the brow that don’t always translate across from one to the other.
In 2011 Kyla has undertaken two artist residencies, with a solo exhibition titled 'Ombres and double entendres' and a solo site specific drawing installation mon Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour for the Underbelly Arts Festival 2011. She has been exhibiting in group shows since 2005 in Sydney, Melbourne, Berlin, Paris and South Korea.
Kyla travelled the world between 2007-2009 in pursuit of art and adventure. She immersed herself in art, saw as many of the must see galleries and museums and undertook several artist residencies in Paris and Berlin and setting up and co-directed an ARI in Berlin during 2008. Kyla continues making art in Sydney.
Solo Exhibitions
2011
Cohering, not cohearing: going through the motions, Underbelly Arts, Cockatoo Island
Ombres & double entendres, The Trophy Room Residency & Gallery, Surry Hills
2009
Slipstream, duo show, La Bastellerie, Berlin
2008
Your truth is my fiction, duo show, Fröhsinnberg projekt, Berlin
Selected Exhibitions
Selected Exhibitions
2011
Frasers Studios Queen Street Visual Artist Residency 2011 show, Sydney
Printed Matter, Papermill, Sydney
The Fringe Dwellers, MCAP’11 Runners-up Exhibition, ESP Gallery, Marrickville
2010...
Printed Matter, Papermill, Sydney
The Fringe Dwellers, MCAP’11 Runners-up Exhibition, ESP Gallery, Marrickville
2010...
First Draft Depot Fundraiser Show, Sydney
Untitled (Letters), Filling in the cracks, Underbelly Arts, Sydney
Hoarding, Open Fields, Serial Space Gallery & UTS, Sydney
2009
2009
Mind Shaft Two, Decisions group show, ESP Gallery, Sydney
Troodoo Dolls, Trophy Room, Sydney
Fashion Reloaded Sustainable Event, Kaiserliches Postamt Neukoelln, Berlin
Les Potobos, Detournement urbain, Paris Label, Paris
2008
2008
Anonymous Drawing No.9, Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien, Berlin
Fröhsinnberg projekt group show, Fröhsinnberg projekt, Berlin
Brot des bombs, The many mini residency, The Berlin Office, Berlin
Miscommunicaes series, Fröhsinnberg projekt, Berlin
Fabricated Landscapes, Atelier en commun, Paris
Taped Landscape, Jardin de la Place d’Aligre, Paris
2006
2006
Hills Hoist sculpture garden, Knot Gallery, Peats Ridge Festival, NSW
100 Points of light, Collaboration Cara MacLeod, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne
2005-2
2005-2
Peat’s Ridge Festival 2005: Sculpture Garden, Glenworth Valley NSW
Walking the street 2004/5, Newtown Arts Festival, Sydney
Cracks in the pavement 2005; Gifts in the urban landscape, USA/ UK/ AUS
The 8th Seoul Fringe Festival 2004 ; Eyes for other skies (animation & video), Seoul
Next Wave Festival 2004; Eyes for other skies, ACMI & Loop Bar, Melbourne
Slacking Off, Imperial Slacks, Sydney
F.A.L.T, F#!$ Art Let’s Thrash, Wren, Sydney
Residencies, Talks & Experience
Residencies, Talks & Experience
2011
Frasers Studioes Queen Street Visual Artist Residency
Trophy Room Visual Artist Residency
2010
Artist Talk, Hoarding, Open Fields Forum, Serial Space Gallery
2008
Co-director, Fröhsinnberg project ARI, Berlin
Artist in residency, Atelier en Commun, Paris
Gallery Assistant, Low Salt Gallery, Glasgow International Art Festival
2005
Highly Commended, innovative use of materials, Walking the street
Artist Talk, Don’t lecture me, ‘Mock Fungi’ Artist Talks, Peat’s Ridge Sustainability Festival
Qualifications
Qualifications
Bachelor of Arts (Animation & Illustration), University of Western Sydney 1998
Certificate of Design Fundamentals, Enmore Design Centre 1995
Certificate of Design Fundamentals, Enmore Design Centre 1995
