Kim Booker
Overview
Kim Booker, Photographed by Adele Watts
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.
Booker (born 1983, UK) completed a BFA at City and Guilds of London Art School in 2019, and has since exhibited widely in the UK, and abroad, including South Korea, Paris and Barcelona.
Booker (born 1983, UK) completed a BFA at City and Guilds of London Art School in 2019, and has since exhibited widely in the UK, and abroad, including South Korea, Paris and Barcelona.
Works
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Exhibitions
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The Guts and The Glory
19 Jan - 2 Mar 2024The Guts and The Glory brings together the works of six painters and sculptors. The artists each utilise visual language borrowed from art history to offer a contemporary perspective that...Read more -
Kim Booker: I Want To Live Twice
1 - 29 Jul 2023I Want to Live Twice is a solo exhibition by British artist Kim Booker. Situated in a former Methodist chapel, the exhibition explores an existential theme fitting for its setting:...Read more
