Biography

Kim McDonald is an interdisciplinary Australian artist who has a background education in Printmaking, Movement and Dance. McDonald recently completed a studio based Masters in Fine Art (by Research) at Monash University. Her research project explored the development of a printmedia and installation art practice that prioritised an experimental and experiential printmaking methodology.Kim lives with her family of humans and animals in the small seaside town of Sandy Point in Victoria, Australia. She combines her love of family and rural life together with a passion for the arts and a commitment to a sustained art practice.

Exhibition

Zone of Sensation
For over three hundred years the monotype technique has provided artists with a print process that is spontaneous, immediate and experimental. The liberal and improvisational nature of monotype, makes it a contemporary medium that interweaves successfully with other disciplines, creating dynamic and exciting results. The versatility of monotype makes it an ideal medium for pushing the boundaries of traditional printmaking, it enables the discovery of what can happen when print moves off the wall and out into three-dimensional space.

In my studio practice I use an interdisciplinary approach for the making and presentation of my work. I explore a printmaking methodology that pushes the boundaries of traditional printmaking by using low tech printmaking methods combined with an installation art approach.

‘Zone of Sensation’ is an installation that is composed of printed component elements that interconnect and reconfigure depending on the space they are situated in. I am interested in extending the boundaries of the work and responding intuitively to the architectural and kinaesthetic qualities of its environment.

For Impact8 Dundee I am working blind in a sense as I will not be attending the conference in person and so will not be able to intuitively respond to my allocated exhibition space. This blindness and the consequent relinquishing of control will enable a liberal approach to its final configuration. The Impact8 theme of Borders and Crossings, the artist as explorer will be encapsulated in the process of the work traversing borders and being re-configured as a ‘Zone of Sensation’ without the eyes of the artist.