Kim L Pace makes luminous paintings, sculptures and drawings of emotionally charged beings. She draws on wide-ranging sources—from art history and amphorae, to Eastern European folk culture and literature—to conjure up ghost-like beings that render the inner self visible.
Seemingly caught in states of becoming, with the head or face often disembodied to heighten the psychological intensity, Pace’s strange beings waver between unease and playfulness.
Her work reminds us of our inescapable physicality, and how at times—if not all the time—we humans can feel deeply awkward and uneasy in our own skin.
Kim L Pace (b. London) lives and works between East Sussex and London.
Her work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions across the UK and internationally including: Hastings Museum & Art Gallery, UK (2025-26); Arusha Gallery Somerset, UK (2024); Arusha Gallery Edinburgh (2022); Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London (2018, 2019 duo); West End Arts Library Gallery, London (2017 duo). Selected group shows include ASC Gallery, London (2025, 2024); Royal Academy of Art, London (2023, 2021); Terra Viva Galerie, St Quentin la Poterie, FR (2023); Sedona Arts Center, Arizona USA (2020); Villa Erba, Lake Como, Italy (2018); Oriel Davies Gallery, Wales (2016); Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK (2015).
Pace has received many awards for her work, including multiple Arts Council England awards, also the Evelyn Williams Drawing Fellowship, the Linbury Drawing Fellowship and the Berwick Gymnasium Fellowship; and she’s undertaken several international artist residencies.
She has been invited to curate projects for Hayward Gallery Touring, London; Czech Centre, NYC, USA and Tate Britain, and commissions include Hayward Gallery, London and English Heritage. Pace has lectured extensively, including at the RCA, London, Wimbledon College of Arts and Camberwell College of Arts, University of Arts London.
Kim L Pace is an elected member of the Royal Society of Sculptors (MRSS) & the International Society for Folk Narrative Research (ISFNR).
Artist interview at Considering Art podcast, 2022.
Prior to 2005, Kim L Pace was known as Kim Merrington.