Working across drawing, ceramic sculpture and painting, I create ensembles of strange and mischievous characters, that feel like they’re about to burst out of the wall or roll into your space. My materials and forms often have historical and social baggage—tugging at ideas of class, gender, and domesticity.
Rooted in material exploration and personal experience, my practice draws from art history, psychoanalysis, literature, and the more playful aspects of folk and pop culture. These elements converge through the dynamic interplay of colour and perception.
Transformation is a key theme—bodies mutating and hybrids that push past what we expect. They symbolise personal change, but also act as cheeky allegories for power dynamics in relationships, both human and non-human, flipping the roles and expectations until everything seems to growl and smirk.
Biography
Since graduating with an MA in Fine Art, British artist Kim L Pace has received many awards for her work, including the Evelyn Williams Drawing Fellowship, the Linbury Drawing Fellowship and the Berwick Gymnasium Fellowship.
Her work has been shown internationally, including in over 25 solo (& duo) shows and numerous group exhibitions. Her solo institutional exhibitions include: Limerick City Art Gallery, Ireland; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; Northern Territory Gallery for Contemporary Art, Australia; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield; McLean County Art Center, USA and Berwick Gymnasium Art Gallery, UK.
Supplementary to her art practice, Kim has been invited to curate projects like ‘Cult Fiction’ for Hayward Gallery Touring, London, ‘Labyrinth of Darkness’ at the Czech Centre, NYC and ‘From Doodle to Digit’ at Tate Britain. She has lectured extensively in Higher Education in London & across the UK, and has also been a visiting lecturer in the USA, Australia and the Netherlands.
Her most recent solo exhibitions include A Fantastic Fermentation of Matter, Danielle Arnaud, London, 2018; Mercurious, Danielle Arnaud, London 2019 (duo); Kindred, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, 2022 and Strange Company, Arusha Gallery, Somerset, 2024.
Kim L Pace was previously known as Kim Merrington.