About

2024 Annual Photo Awards Finalist: People, Body & Nudes Category

2024 Black & White Photography Awards Silver Medalist

October 2025 Divine Disorder Art Show, The Philippines

- Kirsty In Motion

There’s a magnetic pull I feel when creating throughout Southeast Asia. My favourite images have been captured where coral reefs and light entwine to cast soft, silky reflections on the water’s surface.There is a unique magic in watching the sunrise from beneath the waves, starting the day in the depth of pre-dawn. Outside of the water, the jungle is alive. Shadows of palm trees however above, geckos sing their morning tune and all around is a calming, spiritual essence that seems to embrace you.

My mission is to bring art and nature to those at home. Making you feel part of it no matter where you are, joyful and in turn inspired about life and our connection to this planet. I believe in raising each other up whether that it through my own art or working collectively on projects. Community and stories lie at the heart of all cultures.

‘Life is the dancer and you are the dance’ - Eckhart Tolle

Biography

 Kirsty McQue (Kirsty In Motion) is known for her romantic and ethereal style, capturing the female form underwater with the focus on women's connection to nature. Her dreamy images are set to inspire and heal. Promoting sustainable ways of exploring the planet. Freedom, love and connection, strength and vulnerability are themes explored throughout her artwork. With an atmospheric approach using only natural light she brings concepts and storylines to life through still images. Her fine art imagery has taken her work to locations across South East Asia and it’s islands.

Kirsty launched her photo print series ‘From The Depths’ in 2024, the series captures the essence of women between the waves in different underwater locations telling a unique story from each location. Commissions from this series can be found through the online California art gallery ‘Helm & Oar’.

Her next collection ‘Bodies Of Water’ was launched in 2025 in curation with The South African Gallery ‘The Fourth’. Currently Kirsty is working on her own collection called ‘Divine Disorder’ a paradox that weaves a story throughout The Philippines and Indonesia. This will be launched in 2026.

Kirsty’s aim is to inspire, engage and motivate people to explore the natural world, through her work. In 2024 she returned from a self driven expedition in The Philippines to document finding whale sharks in the wild for eco-tourism as well as creating a visual mood for a new eco hotel in Indonesia who is paving the way for mental and spiritual transformation set in Indonesia’s jungle.

Kirsty is proud to be a contributor to the Kogia non profit ocean conservation media library, a visual storyteller for Ocean Culture Life, and an ambassador for Abysse Official.

After moving from The UK to Australia in 2020 and teaching herself to surf and free-dive, in 2023 she began telling stories about the ocean, lifestyles connected to the coast and living sustainably. Kirsty is a surfer, certified free diver and scuba diver, skills used to capture images close to the surface and at depths of up to 15metres on one breath.

Kirsty creates holistically, taking care to align her visual output with audio. Prior to becoming a photographer, Kirsty worked in the music industry producing music festivals. After graduating from Leeds College of Music in Britain with a degree in music and songwriting, she project managed live-music events and festivals across Britain, Europe and Australia for five years. Kirsty draws on this experience when content creating and putting together a production.

For all licensing enquiries and to discuss a project, please email kirstyinmotion@gmail.com

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  • My portraits shot by Zoe Lower

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