Kirsten is an artist and filmmaker whose practice combines artists moving image, experimental filmmaking and creative writing. She has a professional background in documentary television having previously worked at the BBC as a director and producer. This informs her practice and research.

Her practice combines experimental and documentary practices to explore concepts of place and belonging. This work acknowledges the growing insecurities surrounding the personal and the political, identity and statelessness, shelter and hostility. To have a sense of belonging could be understood as gaining coherence in a community, or in the fraternal pact, or conversely may be associated with exclusion, exile or threat.

Other research practice is concerned with the ethical and political implications associated with a visual blurring of the gendered subject in the mediated framing of state-controlled violence. Here she utilises deconstructed filmmaking practice combined with critical approaches in filmmaking.

Kirsten teaches experimental filmmaking and artists moving image at the in the School of Culture and Creative Arts at the University of Glasgow.