CONTEMPORARY ART STOCKROOM Kim Anderson

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Kim Anderson has been listed in this year's TOP 100 Australian Collectable artists of 2025!

Kim Anderson has been announced as a finalist the 2025 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing.

Congratulations to Kim Anderson who has been announced as a finalist in the Sunshine Coast National Art Prize 2024, the Paul Guest Drawing Prize 2024 and the Manifest International Drawing Annual 15.

Close observational drawing forms the core of Kim Anderson’s practice as she explores the physical manifestations of a psyche in turmoil, and the ever-shifting relationship between our inner and outer worlds. With a consistent tendency towards intricate detail, Anderson's practice focuses on how powerful internal emotions such as grief, despair and longing can be embodied, often using elements of the external landscape as metaphors for these intense psychological states. Much of her work involves a deeply personal psychological scrutiny in order to confront the more difficult aspects of human experience.

Having spent 17 years as a ballet dancer, Anderson's background informs her artistic approach. Her deliberate placement of herself as muse within the frame echoes the physical expression of internal emotions. Before embarking on her meticulous and methodical work in the studio, she immerses herself in nature, absorbing its freedom and grace, providing a poignant contrast to the complex detail her pieces require. The lines and spaces she meticulously crafts breathe life into her artwork, allowing it to flourish.
Excerpt of exhibition text by Kate McAuley, 2023

ARTIST PROFILE:
Kim Anderson completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from the University of Ballarat in 2003 and was awarded a scholarship to study a Master of Fine Art at the University of Dundee in Scotland in 2007. Over the course of her career she has created and curated a number of projects facilitated via funding support from the Australia Council, Arts Victoria, City of Melbourne, and Regional Arts Victoria. She has undertaken numerous residencies around the world including an Australia Council Studio Residency at the British School in Rome, Australia House in Echigo-Tsumari, Japan, Hospitalfield House in Arbroath, Scotland, Murray’s Cottage in Hill End, the University of Tasmania, Scotch Oakburn College in Launceston, The Art Vault in Mildura, and DRAWinternational in Caylus, France, supported by the Ian Potter Cultural Trust, the Copyright Agency Creative Industries Career Fund, and Creative Partnerships Australia. In 2019 Anderson was the recipient of a three-month Jon Schueler Scholarship Artist-in-Residence at the Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, National Centre for Gaelic Language, Culture and the Arts, Isle of Skye, Scotland.

She has been a finalist in numerous national awards including the Paul Guest Drawing Prize (2024, 2018, 2016),Sunshine Coast National Art Prize (2024), Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award (2024, 2022, 2020), Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize (2025, 2024, 2021), the Manifest International Drawing Annual 15 (2024) Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award (2023), Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize (2023), Muswellbrook Art Prize (2022), the Kedumba Drawing Award (2022, 2020), the Grace Cossington Smith Award (2021), WAMA Art Prize (2021), National Works on Paper Award (2020), Wyndham Art Prize (2020), the Swan Hill Drawing Prize (2020), the Lyn McCrea Memorial Drawing Prize (winner of the People's Choice Award 2019), Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize (winner of the People's Choice Award 2019), and the Rick Amor Drawing Prize (2016). Along with more traditional works on paper, Anderson also creates ephemeral installation projects involving site-specific drawing and projection. Projects include The Space Between, a visual/sound installation at the inaugural White Night Ballarat in March 2017 which subsequently travelled to the Salamanca Arts Centre in Hobart and a public art commission for the Vic Health Offices, Melbourne. Her artwork has also been used on the cover of Nathan Curnow's book of poetry. In 2018 Anderson held a major solo exhibition To Live Alone in a World of Wounds at the Art Gallery of Ballarat and in 2020 exhibited in the group exhibition Mutual Realities: Finding Common Ground in Uncertain Times also at the Art Gallery of Ballarat.

She has exhibited in Australia and abroad with solo exhibitions in Melbourne, Mildura, Bendigo, Bathurst, Ballarat, Launceston, Hobart and Japan. Her work is held in the collections of the Art Gallery of Ballarat, Damascus College, Ballarat, Loretto College, Ballarat and the Ballarat Arts Foundation.

Kim Anderson's work installed at VicHealth's Melbourne headquarters

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Media Highlights

Metamorphosis 2023
Ink, charcoal and graphite on paper
75cm x 105cm
$8,500 AUD

Waiting For the Birds 2023
Ink, charcoal and graphite on paper
105cm x 75cm (Framed 118 x 90cm)
$8,500 AUD

The Dance II 2023
Ink, charcoal and graphite on paper
75cm x 75cm (Framed 90 x 90cm)
$7,000 AUD

The Dance I 2023
Ink, charcoal and graphite on paper
75cm x 75cm (Framed 90 x 90cm)
$7,000 AUD

Remember 2023
Ink, charcoal and graphite on paper
76cm x 56cm framed size 88.5 x 68.5cm
$5,500 AUD

Embrace 2023
Ink, charcoal and graphite on paper
76cm x 56cm framed size 88.5 x 68.5cm
$5,500 AUD

Journey 2023
Ink, charcoal and graphite on paper
76cm x 56cm framed size 88.5 x 68.5cm
$5,500 AUD

Imprint I 2023
Ink, charcoal and graphite on paper
37cm x 30cm (Framed 52 x 44cm)
$2,750 AUD

Imprint IV 2023
Ink, charcoal and graphite on paper
37cm x 30cm (Framed 52 x 44cm)
$2,750 AUD

Suspended II 2022
graphite, charcoal and ink on paper, unframed
76cm x 42cm
$2,500 AUD

Sunrise 2024
ink, charcoal and wax on board, framed
40cm x 30cm
Sold
Sold

Sunset 2024
ink, charcoal and wax on board, framed
40cm x 30cm
Sold
Sold

Protection 2018
ink, charcoal & pastel on paper, unframed
116cm x 80cm unframed in gallery stockroom
$3,000 AUD

Disappearing 2017
ink, charcoal & pastel on paper, unframed
116cm x 80cm unframed in gallery stockroom
$3,000 AUD

Dysmorphia 2017
ink, charcoal & pastel on paper, unframed
116cm x 80cm unframed in gallery stockroom
$3,000 AUD

Lament 2017
ink, charcoal and pastel on paper
116cm x 80cm unframed in gallery stockroom
$3,000 AUD

Fear of Falling 2017
ink, charcoal and pastel on paper
116cm x 80cm unframed in gallery stockroom
$3,000 AUD

Gesichtslosgeist 2017
ink, charcoal and pastel on paper
116cm x 80cm unframed in gallery stockroom
$3,000 AUD