Bundanon

Lives / works: Dja Dja Warrung Land, Campbells Creek (VIC).

Kim Anderson completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at the University of Ballarat, and a Master of Fine Art at the University of Dundee in Scotland.  Since then she has undertaken residencies and projects in Italy, Japan, France, the Isle of Skye and multiple locations around Australia with support from the Australia Council, the Ian Potter Cultural Trust, the City of Melbourne, Regional Arts Victoria, and the Jon Schueler Charitable Trust.  Anderson has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions around Australia and abroad, and has been a finalist in awards including the National Works on Paper, Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, Paul Guest Award and the Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize.  She is currently represented by Flinders Lane Gallery in Melbourne, Penny Contemporary in Hobart, and May Space Online. 

In residence at Bundanon

Anderson’s work explores our complicated relationship with the natural world, interweaving themes of ecological grief, accountability, vulnerability and resilience. To inform her intricately detailed drawings, she will photograph herself immersed in the landscape at Bundanon, performing unrehearsed, spontaneous physical reactions to the topography around her. Oscillating between awe, discomfort, melancholy, tenderness and solace, this solitary activity is witnessed only by a camera lens. Back in the studio, this documentation will be transformed into drawings though a process of meticulous, emotionally laden mark-making.