About Kimbal Bumstead
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Education
2009 - 2010
Queen Mary University of London
2006 - 2007
Academia Sztuka Pieknych w Krakowie (Academy of Fine Art in Krakow)
2004 - 2008
University of Leeds
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Previous events
Event: Windows
Dates: 5 Nov 2018 - 17 May 2019
Group show curated by Rowan Siddons
Event: Bold and Explosive
Dates: 21 Jun 2018 - 31 Jul 2018
Solo Show of recent paintings
Event: Unmapping Tokyo
Dates: 18 May 2018 - 28 Jun 2019
A solo show presenting my work and research into subjective associations with a local neighbourhood in Tokyo. I presented a multi-channel video installation and a series of drawings.
Event: 40 x 40
Dates: 9 Apr 2018 - 4 May 2018
Showcasing 40 x 40 cm artworks created specially by invited artists, Forty by Forty 2018 includes painting, mixed media, photography and printmaking.
Event: Inner Landscapes
Dates: 27 Oct 2017 - 21 Nov 2017
Solo Exhibition exploring the relationship between my painting practice and subjective cartography
Event: Mixed Media
Dates: 17 Oct 2017 - 24 Nov 2017
Group exhibition of a variety of works
Event: Magma Group Exhibition
Dates: 25 Feb 2015 - 1 Mar 2015
Group show with the Magma Group
Event: The Instability of Being
Dates: 16 Oct 2014 - 14 Nov 2014
The Magma Group of artists, at the invitation of the Griffin Gallery in West London, will be exhibiting for a month on the theme 'The
Instability of Being'. The private view will be on Thursday 30th October from 6.30-8.30 pm with live music from the Eastern
European band 'Balabustah'
The exhibition is a forum for the most exciting, individual and expressive British and international art being made today. The group
will exhibit paintings, and sculpture, ranging between the figurative and abstract. This is their fifth show, having been invited by The
Other Art Fair and the Vibe Gallery amongst others in the last 2 years.
The aims of the Magma Group are to form an alternative path for the current of conceptually expressive contemporary art. Paul
Carey-Kent says, ' ... the explicitness of the programme behind The Magma Group ... to fuse expressive and conceptual qualities
... is particularly unusual.'
Biography
Painting is an essential part of my being; a painting to me is not only an image but a physical material object, which embodies traces of its process of production.
My abstract work is material-based and process-led: it explores the notion of layering from both a conceptual and material standpoint. My painting process is a cathartic dialogue with the materials, which involves building and unearthing translucent coatings of oil paint and varnish onto plywood, paper and canvas. The resulting paintings are a trace of that dialogue. Through painting, I am the cartographer of a journey through an internal, perhaps imagined, landscape; where each painting acts as a section of an extended landscape that could perhaps exist beyond the frame. The work is playful and colourful, explosive and pensive; poetically confrontational shapes flow between each other, like the meeting of two or more worlds, folding and colliding.
My painting practice is influenced by my intimate one-to-one performance art work, which involves sensory drawing as a performative act, as well as by my fascination with cartography. I am interested in how mark-making can be used as a way to map layers of subjectivities in relation to space, place and the body. My current project “Unmapping” is both inspired by and acts as an inspiration for my painting practice. It involves leading workshops on collaborative drawing and using participatory cartography as a tool for mining stories and memories to capture abstract images of personal or imagined geographies.
