Kirsten Hatfield is a disabled and chronically ill, queer artist who lives and works on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples–Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations (so-called Vancouver, BC.) Her personal practice fluctuates between a wide variety of materials and is centred around, identity, illness, ableism, nostalgia, and colour theory. Her work has been featured on CBCarts, BBC, Huffpostarts, Seventeen Magazine, New York Magazine, AbleZine and locally in Sad Mag and Discorder Magazine.

My abstract paintings are a combination of memory and dream imagery informed largely by the landscape of my upbringing; both the physical landscape of Vancouver Island where I grew up, and the cultural landscape of growing up a digital native. Each of my paintings are an exploration of contradictions: the artificial and the natural, the digital and the physical, organization and chaos, flatness and depth, synthetic and natural colours, the sublime and the banal, nostalgia and progression. The intention is to explore the physical and cultural environment of a post-internet society and to reflect upon the contradictions of this technologically progressive culture that is obsessed with nostalgia and tradition; simultaneously existing in the past and future.