Kim Anderson

Australian artist, Kim Anderson, took up her residency at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig in 2019, under the Jon Schueler Residency Programme.

Kim, who is from Ballarat, Victoria completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at the University of Ballarat, Australia, and in 2007 was awarded a scholarship to study a Master of Fine Art at the University of Dundee, in Scotland. Since then, Anderson has undertaken a number of residencies including an Australia Council International Studio Residency at the British School at Rome, in Echigo-Tsumari, Japan, at Hospitalfield House in Arbroath, Scotland, and at DRAWinternational in Caylus, France, which was supported by the Ian Potter Cultural Trust.

In 2010 Kim received an ArtStart Grant from the Australia Council, and has created and curated projects supported by Arts Victoria, the City of Melbourne, and Regional Arts Victoria. Kim has also exhibited around Australia and abroad and been a finalist in numerous national awards including the Paul Guest Award, the Rick Amor Drawing Prize, and the Hazelhurst Art Award. Major installation projects include, I Am My Own Prisoner at Scotch Oakburn College in Launceston, Tasmania, in 2013, and The Space Between, a visual/sound installation at the inaugural White Night Ballarat in March 2017. In 2018 Kim was a core artist of the Biennale of Australian Art with a major solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ballarat.

On beginning her residency, Kim said: “I feel so incredibly thrilled and honoured to be this year’s Jon Schueler Scholarship recipient. It is a real validation of the direction I have recently been pursuing in my work – focusing on themes of ecological grief and mourning in the face of climate change and irreversible damage to the environment. I am looking forward to developing a new body of work, a new series of large-scale drawings and soundscapes inspired by Gaelic traditional songs, poetry and the extraordinary landscape on the Isle of Skye. Since arriving at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, I have undertaken 2 Short Courses which have given me a greater understanding of the wealth of culture surrounding me and an opportunity to engage with that culture from the outset.”