About

Born 1981. Lives and works near London.

Kim graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2004 with a degree in Fine Art. Her painting uses the paper minutiae we all leave behind throughout our lives, transforming them into gigantic hand painted monuments.

Each item is fragmented and meticulously reproduced on a massive scale in very thin layers of acrylic paints, giving it a print-like quality.

This fragmental approach allows the artist to manipulate the viewer’s gaze, censoring or emphasising its elements to convey particular themes. The viewer is left devoid of the wider context, prompting them to re-contextualize the fragment on their own accord.

The change in scale, also, illuminates the fragment’s content; this acts as a metamorphosis of both form and meaning, magnifying connotations that may have gone unnoticed in its original scale and transient form. Subsequently, the mundanity of the subject is elevated, giving the paintings a transcendental quality.

Receipts, certificates, tickets and ephemera are aggrandized; they become memory–fragments, denoting a personal narrative, tracing a history, or even conveying a societal shift. They are fragments of personal and private experience. But through decontextualization they are given a universality that allows space for the viewer’s own private and emotive response.

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