CONTEMPORARY ART STOCKROOM Kim Anderson

Kim Anderson is the current artist-in-residence at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, the National Centre for Gaelic Language, Culture and the Arts on the Isle of Skye.

Close observational drawing forms the core of Kim’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 Kim 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.

'Long interested in the physical expression of psychological trauma, Anderson’s exploration of solastalgia—also known as ‘eco-anxiety’ and ‘ecological grief’—began with her 2018 solo exhibition To Live Alone in a World of Wounds at the Art Gallery of Ballarat. This new body of work continues and deepens her research. In Anderson’s drawings, the shape of tree limbs are subtly echoed in the gestures of the figure’s body. The dress—flouncy, ankle-length, wildly impractical—recalls the patterns of tree bark in its many folds and creases. This figure is at once out of place in the landscape, and implicitly connected to it, shadowing the trees that cling in death to the soil.'
Excerpt of exhibition text by Anna Dunnill 2019

Kim completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at the University of Ballarat in 2003, and in 2007 she was awarded a scholarship to study a Master of Fine Art at the University of Dundee in Scotland. Since then she has undertaken a number of residencies around the world including an Australia Council Studio Residency at the British School at Rome, Australia House in Echigo-Tsumari, Japan, Hospitalfield House in Arbroath, Scotland, Murray’s Cottage in Hill End, the University of Tasmania and Scotch Oakburn College in Launceston, and The Art Vault in Mildura. In 2016 Kim undertook a three-month residency at DRAWinternational in Caylus, France, which was supported by the Ian Potter Cultural Trust, the Copyright Agency Creative Industries Career Fund, and Creative Partnerships Australia.

In 2010 Kim received an ArtStart Grant from the Australia Council, and she has created and curated projects supported by Arts Victoria, the City of Melbourne, and Regional Arts Victoria. She has exhibited all around Australia and abroad with solo exhibitions in Melbourne, Mildura, Bendigo, Bathurst, Ballarat, Launceston, Hobart and Japan, and been a finalist in numerous national awards including the Paul Guest Award, the Rick Amor Drawing Prize, and the Hazelhurst Art Award. In 2018 she was announced the winner of the inaugural Collins Place Art Award. Along with more traditional works on paper, Kim has also created ephemeral installation projects involving site-specific drawing and projection, most notably 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.

In 2018 Kim was featured as a core artist in the inaugural Biennale of Australian Art (BOAA) with a major solo exhibition titled To Live Alone in a World of Wounds at the Art Gallery of Ballarat.

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Solastalgia, by Anna Dunill 2019

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Tenacity 2019
ink, charcoal and pastel on paper
105cm x 75cm (framed size 119 x 89cm)
$4,600 AUD

I Dreamt of Trees 2019
ink, charcoal and pastel on paper
105cm x 75cm (framed size 119 x 89cm)
$4,800 AUD

The Penalty 2019
ink, charcoal and pastel on paper
76cm x 56cm (framed size 91 x 69cm)
$3,800 AUD

Running Through a Remembered Forest I 2019
ink, charcoal and pastel on paper
76cm x 56cm (framed size 91 x 69cm)
$2,800 AUD

Running Through a Remembered Forest II 2019
ink, charcoal and pastel on paper
76cm x 56cm (framed size 91 x 69cm)
$2,800 AUD

Running Through a Remembered Forest III 2019
ink, charcoal and pastel on paper
76cm x 56cm (framed size 91 x 69cm)
$2,800 AUD