Kim Booker
Working in acrylic on large canvases, Kim Booker uses colour, gesture and figure to express the psychology of the female experience. Her semi-autobiographical paintings often feature figures in poses that are suggestive of differing emotional states, created intuitively through a combination of gestural abstraction and layers of drawn imagery. Elements are scrubbed out, obscured, and over-painted, with dynamic strokes and scrawls of colour reflecting both the physicality of painting and the emotions of the painter, self-censorship in real-time.
Rooted in the tradition of modern painting, Booker’s work shows the influence of German Expressionism, idiosyncratic British painting, such as the work of Roy Oxlade, and American abstract expressionism - combined with a contemporary perspective on identity and relationships.
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B. 1983, UK. Lives and works in London.
Education
2019 BFA, City and Guilds of London Art School, London
2016 Foundation Diploma, The Art Academy, London
2002-05 BA Jurisprudence, St Hugh’s College, Oxford
Solo Exhibitions
2023 I Want to Live Twice, Bo Lee and Workman, Somerset, UK
2023 No-man’s-land, Jari Lager Gallery, Cologne
2022 June is the Saddest Month, Annka Kultys Gallery, London, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 NEW NOW: Part 1, Guts Gallery, London
2022 Taking a Broom to the Wasps Nest, Pictorum Gallery, London
2022 Road to Somewhere, The Room London Gallery, London, UK
2022 Kiaf Seoul, Jari Lager Gallery, South Korea
2022 Voices for Love, Prior Art Space, Barcelona, Spain
2022 Art Busan, Jari Lager Gallery, South Korea
2022 Weeds won’t Wither, Jari Lager Gallery, Cologne, Germany
2022 Art Paris, Galerie Dutko, Paris, France
2022 Cacotopoia 06, Annka Kultys Gallery, London, UK
2022 An Arcadian kind of Love, Soho Revue Gallery, London, UK
2021 New Paintings, Galerie Dutko, Paris, France
2021 A War with no Winner: Bodies and their Spaces, Grove Collective, London, UK
2021 Reframing, Rebuilding, Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sevenoaks, UK
2021 Pneuma, Purslane Gallery, London, UK [online]
2021 50 x 50, The Auction Collective, London, UK
2021 Oxlade Soup, Terrace Gallery, London, UK
2021 The Top 100, London, UK
2021 After Hours, Bowes Paris Gallery, London, UK
2020 The Birds are Singing in the Distant Woods, The Violet Hour, London, UK [online]
2020 A Dream is not a Dream, Purslane Gallery, London, UK [online]
2020 On the Strangest Sea, The Violet Hour, London, UK [online]
2019 Galerie Tassilo Usner at Parallel Vienna, Vienna, Austria
2019 Exceptional, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London, UK
2019 Recent Graduates, The Affordable Art Fair, London, UK
2019 Plop End of Residency Show, London, UK
2019 Flock at the Buday, GX Gallery, London, UK
2019 City & Guilds Art School Degree Show, London, UK
2018 Dam at Mother, Shoreditch, London, UK
Residencies
2021 Ellipsis Prints, Risograph residency, London, UK
2019 Plop Residency, London, UK