Mason Kimber
Website: www.masonkimber.com
Email: mason.kimber@unsw.edu.au
Supervisors: Bianca Hester, Stephen Loo
Mason Kimber is a Gadigal/Sydney-based artist and PhD candidate whose practice encompasses painting, sculptural reliefs and installation. His work engages with the social dimension of architecture, in particular its relationship to memory. By reworking images and casts of architectural fragments into new compositions, Kimber explores the way physical facades and interiors can register histories within their skins.
After graduating in 2013 with an MFA in Painting from the National Art School, Sydney, Kimber was awarded a three-month studio residency at the British School at Rome, Italy the following year. It was here that he studied ancient fresco painting, which led him to look closely at the various connections between painting and the built fabric of cities. For his current PhD research at UNSW Art + Design, he's looking at how the surface activity of painting can be approached as a form of critical spatial practice.
- Research area
- Research outputs
- Painting
- Spatial Practice
Selected projects include: MCA Collection: Perspectives on place, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney (2021); Strata, Kronenberg Mais Wright, Sydney (2021); Prologue: Tongue on tongue / nos salives dans ton oreille, Galerie Allen, Paris (2019); Future Relics, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne (2018); Slanted Mansions, COMA, Sydney (2018); and NEW16, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2016).