Kirstie Fray, How the Light Catches Her

Kirstie Fray

How the Light Catches Her

2026

Ink on paper  

27.5 × 40 cm in A3 frame

Artist Bio

Kirstie Fray (she/they) is a Naarm-based artist working predominantly in ink and watercolour. Centring interiority and softness, reflecting the quiet resilience and tenderness found in lived experience.

Exploring the quiet power of queer domesticity and the ways we build spaces that let us exist as ourselves. Drawn to moments where softness and strength sit together, where a room becomes an extension of the body; a site of intimacy and self‑possession. Through line, light, and small details, I celebrate the quiet, expansive ways we make home in ourselves and in the spaces we claim. 

Artwork Statement

A nude woman reclines in an armchair, relaxed in a way that comes from a sense of knowing. The trinkets she’s gathered sit as small markers of the life she’s chosen. The evening sunlight catches her soft curves as it casts long shadows across the room. Her connection is inward... a quiet, grounded intimacy with herself and the world she’s made.