Artworks are first available to purchase in person at the exhibition held from 4-10 Oct at King George Square.
Online sales will open following the exhibition.
Kim is an emerging, mature artist from the Redlands, who is working with acrylics on canvas using layers of rich, glowing glazes to visually represent feelings associated with her mental illness.
Kim recalls her earliest experience of severe depression at 15. Anxiety and panic disorders quickly followed. Kim found early in life art provided opportunities to escape from but also express these intense emotions.
Since retiring from academia, Kim is inspired by photographic works that evoke emotions through intense colour, movement, and composition. She develops relationships with the photographers to gain insight into their process, gain permission to use their work, and acknowledge their inspiration. For Kim, each piece is a communication of emotion but also of beauty.
A photo by Vicky Hsieh from Taipei inspired 'Under The Blue Umbrella'. The stationary, dark figure (wearing a mask) represents the isolation and dark emotions I experience with depression (the blue umbrella).
The yellow backpack constrains my energy and any semblance of happiness. The movement of the vibrant and glowing background contrasts my feelings of disconnectedness, and I am prevented from experiencing the colourful possibilities of life – a plane of existence that seems untouchable.