CONTEMPORARY ART STOCKROOM Kim Anderson

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Weight of the World

**News Updates**
Congratulations to Kim Anderson who has just been selected as a finalist for the 2021 Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize with her exceptional piece 'The Witness'.

Kim Anderson recently exhibited as part of Mutual Realities: Finding Common Ground in Uncertain Times 2021 at the Art Gallery of Ballarat. As one of four pairings of local artists invited to collaborate remotely to create new work responding to the COVID pandemic Kim's piece 'Languid to the Moon' (ink, charcoal and graphite on kozo paper, 735 x 97cm) incorporated poety by Nathan Curnow.

'Languid to the Moon'

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.

With her body operating as a kind of emotional conduit, negotiating its engagement with the precarious surfaces of these ancient, monolithic coastal rock formations, the artist is forced into complex positions that bring her into intimate contact with the material truth of the environment. Wedged within the crevices of rock, her body conforms to the hard contours, seeking comfort within discomfort. Like the toss and turn of a restless sleeper seeking release from their worries, these restless physical configurations enact visual and experiential cues that reflect the fundamental powerlessness many feel in the face of climate change.
Excerpt of exhibition text by Phe Luxford 2021

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. 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 been a finalist in numerous national awards including the Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize (2021), National Works on Paper Award (2020), Wyndham Art Prize (2020), the Swan Hill Drawing Prize (2020), the Kedumba Drawing Award (2020), the Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award (2020), Lyn McCrea Memorial Drawing Prize (Winner of the Peoples Choice Award 2019), Paul Guest Award (2018, 2016), and the Rick Amor Drawing Prize (2016).

Mourning Dance I, 2018 (left), Surrender, 2019 (middle), Mourning Dance II, 2018 (right) at the Art Gallery of Ballarat

Denial, 2019 at The Art Gallery of Ballarat

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. 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 both 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.

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Media Highlights

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

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

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

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

Royal Arcade, 2nd November 2019
copic pen and pencil on paper
30cm x 30cm (42 x 42cm framed)
$1,800 AUD