Kim Thornton
Kim Thornton is a multidiscipliniary artist living and working in London. Her work is located within the domestic realm exploring contemporary issues, the politics of being female and stereotypical roles and their value. Combining making with humour, her multidisciplinary practice encompasses photography, film, performance and installation.
Drawing on memories, anecdotes, observation and her own lived experience Thornton subverts everyday tasks to create unexpected narratives. With process at the heart of her practice she fashions costumes from household materials like dusters, dishcloths and scourers and transforms familiar objects to use as props in her playful and often unsettling scenarios.
Kim studied at the University of the Arts London (Camberwell and Chelsea) and has an MA in Visual Arts. She has exhibited in the UK and internationally, most recently at the Dfbrl8r Gallery in Chicago.
In 2018 her Oxford solo show Home Entertainment won an Arts Council funding award and her work is held in corporate and private collections. Thornton was a co-curator of Pillow Talk: Conversations with Women, a collaborative project between South London Women Artists and Goldsmiths Women’s Art Library, which toured to the UCL’s TedX conference, the BBC debate on Intersectional Feminism, Tate Late at Tate Modern and the Austrian Cultural Forum.
Thornton works alone moving backwards and forwards between the camera and set to create large-scale photographs or films. This can often be a lengthy procedure but is an important part of her creative process.