Visual Artist Australia Charcoal Drawings on Paper
The latest news from visual artist Kim Buck
Kim’s work Pray was included in the special event, 12 Days of Christmas, at Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane.
In the spirit of Christmas and in the tradition of the Advent calendar, 12 Days of Christmas revealed twelve new works by twelve artists over twelve days.
Beginning with Kim’s drawing Pray on Tuesday the 25th of November, the gallery featured one significant new work from each artist at 12pm every day of the event.
Pray
Charcoal on Paper
72 x 52cm
2014
For the first time, Limited Edition Prints of a selection of Kim’s charcoal drawings are available to purchase here. The six prints are produced at the highest quality by Image Science, leaders in Australian fine art archival printing.
Each print is personally signed, titled and numbered, and posted free of charge within Australia. International shipping is available at a small additional cost.
These prints are strictly limited editions. When a print is sold out it is no longer available and will not be reproduced.
Click on the image below or type www.kimbuck.bigcartel.com into your browser to purchase a print for your collection today.
HEARTLAND at the Art Gallery of South Australia closes on September 8. Be quick to avoid missing out on this wonderful snapshot of contemporary South Australian art!
Almost 35 000 people have already visited the exhibition, including 5000 school children.
HEARTLAND has received excellent reviews nationwide. Here are several reviewer’s thoughts on Kim’s piece:
“Kim Buck … has created a memorable, superbly executed work which not only draws us in from a distance but also repays close scrutiny” – Margot Osborne, Art Monthly Australia
“Kim Buck’s work is extraordinary for it’s technique and what it delivers: drawing in which the graphite produces a highly photographic effect but as if the photo were deliberately or casually overexposed, or had tones dropped out: scenes reporting figures in a sere, bleached light, sand dunes, and a sense of abandon, that can read as happy or slightly tearful. But recognizably Australian and South Australian. Buck’s work has the precious, fugitive quality of fading, deteriorating moving film when screened. The drawing is so minutely accurate that it reads as photographic—but it is undoubtedly selecting, heightening something the mechanical device couldn’t or wouldn’t and on which is built the pictures’ strange effect. They are drawn with charcoal pencil on cartridge paper: heightened blacks, and the bleached white of detail left out, suggested but also reading emotionally as absence, buffeting wind and sea-spray, blown sand, the bodies recumbent in a way that acquiesces to light, gravity, landform.” – Ken Bolton
HEARTLAND
CONTEMPORARY ART FROM SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Art Gallery of South Australia
21 June to 8 September 2013
‘HEARTLAND is a great reminder of the incredible talent right here in our own backyard.’ The Adelaide Review
Kim is very excited to be included in HEARTLAND, an exhibition of contemporary art from South Australia that hopes to generate new ways of thinking about who and where we are.
It premieres new works of art made for the exhibition as well as selected works that have rarely been seen and includes Tjala artists from Amata, Kate Breakey, Kim Buck, James Darling and Lesley Forwood, Wendy Fairclough, Stewart MacFarlane, Ian North, Annalise Rees, Chris De Rosa, Yhonnie Scarce, Paul Sloan, Tjanpi Desert Weavers, Angela Valamanesh, Hossein Valamanesh and Amy Joy Watson.
Curated by Nici Cumpston, Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art and Project Curator, Lisa Slade, HEARTLAND is a free exhibition thanks to the generous support of the South Australian Government.
Kim’s work in HEARTLAND, Lithology, is a five-panelled, three metre long charcoal drawing exploring an emotional landscape via the human form:
“For Kim Buck the human form offers an emotional landscape. Rendered as terrain in charcoal with virtuosic realism, her figures register different moods and states of being. By presenting her drawings as a panorama, a tradition of presentation indelibly linked to landscape but also to surveillance and control, Buck invites the viewer on a journey through a subjective topography. Buck was born in Mount Gambier, the heart of the limestone coast in the south east of the state. This region conceals a complexity of terrain that includes an arterial system of caves and aquifers – a subterranean labyrinth not visible above the ground. Similarly Buck’s subjects, conjured through time devouring drawing, suggest a complex, inner world.” – Lisa Slade and Nici Cumpston, HEARTLAND catalogue.
Click here to read John Kean’s catalogue essay on Kim’s work
Kim’s drawing ‘Maybe, a piece of the mountain will fall’, will feature in the exhibition Wonderworks with The Cat Street Gallery at the Hong Kong Art Fair 2013. Wonderworks features artists from Asia, America, Africa, the UK and Europe working across a range of different mediums.
Kim will be speaking at an exciting workshop titled ‘The Business of Art’ in Adelaide this coming Saturday January 19th with Robin Eley, Michael Zavros and Sam Hill-Smith. Tickets are still available through the below link.
http://www.artacademy.com.au/business/
Kim was recently interviewed on the terrific site Art World Women, which celebrates and promotes contemporary women artists: http://artworldwomen.com/drawn-to-life-artist-kim-buck/
Sign up to the Art World Women Facebook page to keep up to date with all the exciting things happening for women artists in Australia and around the world: https://www.facebook.com/ArtWorldWomen
Call into the Jan Murphy Gallery stand at the Melbourne Art Fair to see a range of fabulous work from the likes of Ben Quilty, Leslie Rice and Heidi Yardley – as well as two of Kim’s drawings including Cleave (below). Click to see larger view, then click your < back button in your browser to return to this page.
Kim’s off on a grand adventure through France, Italy and Denmark! Most anticipated meeting: Michelangelo’s David…
For the third year running, Kim was announced as the winner of the $5000 Limestone Coast Art Prize. Thanks to PEAK, James Darling and the Keith War Memorial Community Centre for their continued generosity in sponsoring this outstanding prize aimed at promoting mental health in rural communities.
A wonderful month for Kim with the opening of her exhibition Landscapes at Jan Murphy Gallery. The culmination of 12 months work, Landscapes is inspired by the magnificent terrain of the Blue Mountains, where Kim has been based this year.
Kim says of the exhibition: The mountains draw artists to them and I, too, have felt their pull. While I am no landscape painter, it is impossible not to respond to their quiet calling. The work in Landscapes is my reply.
View the exhibition online: http://janmurphygallery.com.au/stockroom.php?aid=100 or visit the gallery at 486 Brunswick St, Fortitude Gallery, Brisbane before December 17th.
I more exciting news this December, Kim was announced as the winner of the $5000 Prospect Self Portrait Prize with her drawing Conatus Study. Now in its 7th year, the Prospect Self Portrait Prize is a national award, attracting an eclectic range of entries from across Australia.
View the finalists at Prospect Gallery until January 2 2012.
Kim last night received a high commendation from judge Ben Quilty in the 2011 Hazelhurst Gallery Art on Paper Award. The $20 000 prize attracted over 700 entries this year, with a wide range of paper media featured in the exhibition including pencil drawings, charcoal, ink, oil, acrylic, gouache and watercolour, photography, printmaking and paper animation.
The exhibition can be viewed until August 14.
Kim is a finalist in the 2011 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, one of the most significant awards for drawing in Australia. Valued at $20 000, the prize attracts hundreds of entries from around Australia. View the exhibition at the Adelaide Perry Gallery until April 5th.
Click the following link to read Bethany Small’s review of Kim’s recent exhibition On Sisyphean Certainty at Michael Reid Gallery:
http://www.timeoutsydney.com.au/arts/event/22747/kim-buck.aspx
The new year has started with the fantastic news that in addition to On Sisyphean Certainty being a sell out exhibition, Kim has been awarded an ArtStart grant through Australia Council. This grant will allow Kim to expand and develop both her artistic and business practices.
Please join Kim at Michael Reid Gallery on December 8th, 6-8pm for the opening of ‘On Sisyphean Certainty’
Michael Reid Gallery
42 Roslyn Gardens, Elizabeth Bay, Sydney
Kim’s drawing Counterpoint II has been selected as one of 35 finalists in the Paul Guest Prize at the Bendigo Art Gallery.
Exhibition dates: 14 August – 10 October 2010
http://www.bendigoartgallery.com.au/page/Page.asp?Page_Id=250&h=0
For the second year running, Kim is a finalist in the National Youth Self Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, with her drawing The Burden of Lachesis.
Kim was recently selected as the recipient of the 2010 Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Award – South Australia’s top award for an arts graduate. The award was presented at the annual Helpmann Academy Maestros and Apprentices event on May 21.
Richard Fennell, Chief Financial Officer of the Bendigo and Adelaide Bank says that, “The judging for this year’s award was, as always, extremely difficult; the standard of finalists was exceptional. Kim’s distinctive talent as an artist is already being recognised by astute art lovers and collectors, and we are very proud to support and encourage her future success.”
Kim has also just completed her first artist in residency at Wilderness School in Adelaide. As a Wilderness old scholar, Kim was excited to be able to share her love of drawing with the students and encourage them to consider a career in art.
The ABC’s Stateline (South Australia) program featured Kim on Friday April 16th. Please click on the following link to view the segment:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2010/04/16/2875426.htm
Kim has won the $5000 Limestone Coast Art Prize with her drawing Faithless (the weight of it all).
She was also voted the winner of the People’s Choice Award at the recent Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition.
Kim’s recent exhibition, Conatus, at Peter Walker Fine Art, sold out prior to opening. The 12 drawings in the exhibition were bought by a range of high profile local and interstate institutions and private collectors, including Artbank. The exhibition received rave reviews and coverage in a number of publications.
Click below to read Lauren Tomczak’s review of Conatus in DB Magazine.
