CONTEMPORARY ART STOCKROOM Kim Anderson

Congratulations to Kim Anderson who has been selected as a Finalist in the 2020 Wyndham Art Prize.

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.

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

Anderson 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. In 2010 she 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. Since then she has undertaken a number of 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 and The Art Vault in Mildura. In 2016 she 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. Most recently 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 (2019).

She has exhibited both in Australia and abroad with solo exhibitions in Melbourne, Mildura, Bendigo, Bathurst, Ballarat, Launceston, Hobart and Japan, and has been a finalist in numerous national awards including the Wyndham Art Prize (2020), Lyn McCrea Memorial Drawing Prize (Winner of the Peoples Choice Award 2019), Paul Guest Award (2018, 2016), the Rick Amor Drawing Prize (2016), the Eureka Art Prize (2016) and the Hazelhurst Art Award (2013).

Along with more traditional works on paper, Anderson 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 Anderson held a major solo exhibition To Live Alone in a World of Wounds at the Art Gallery of Ballarat as part of the Biennale of Australian Art.

PAST EXHIBITION TEXTS
Solastalgia, by Anna Dunill 2019

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The Bush Maid 2019
copic pen, charcoal, pastel and ink on paper
75cm x 105cm , (frame size 89 x 119cm)
$4,600 AUD

Surrender 2019
ink, charcoal and pastel on paper
105cm x 225cm IN ARTIST'S STUDIO
$7,500 AUD

Denial (right side) 2019
charcoal, pastel and ink on paper (one half.)
105cm x 750cm IN ARTIST'S STUDIO
$16,000 AUD

Denial (left side) 2019
charcoal, pastel and ink on paper (one half.)
105cm x 750cm IN ARTIST'S STUDIO
$16,000 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

Fear of Falling 2017
ink, charcoal and pastel on paper
116cm x 80cm IN ARTIST'S STUDIO
$3,000 AUD

Gesichtslosgeist 2017
ink, charcoal and pastel on paper
116cm x 80cm IN ARTIST'S STUDIO
$3,000 AUD

Tenacity 2019
ink, charcoal and pastel on paper
105cm x 75cm (framed size 119 x 89cm)
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Royal Arcade, 2nd November 2019
copic pen and pencil on paper
30cm x 30cm (42 x 42cm framed)
$1,800 AUD