Kirsten Roberts is a contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand artist, based in Tamaki Makaurau / Auckland. Roberts holds a BDes (Hons) 2009 and graduated with Distinction in 2014 with a practice-led MDes from Unitec. Working largely across painting and printmaking, her practice is shaped by an interest in everyday rituals and forms of modern idolatry. Curious about the unseen aspects of consciousness that emerge through process-led making, ideas of belonging and estrangement are explored through subject and painting techniques that act as entry points into experience and may activate alternative ways of understanding.

In 2013 Roberts was awarded winner of the New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award, administrated by the Waikato Society of Arts. In 2008 Roberts won the Glaistor Ennor Art Award awarded to the top Auckland Art Graduate. In 2007, Roberts was Runner Up in the Wallace Art Awards.

Roberts’ paintings are held by the James Wallace Arts Trust, Deercourt Trust, Vela Family Trust and in private collections both in New Zealand and overseas.

Kirsten lives in Pt Chevalier, Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland, NZ.