Kimbal Bumstead

Joined Artfinder: May 2019

Artworks for sale: 13

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United Kingdom

About Kimbal Bumstead

 
 
  • Biography

    Painting is an essential part of my being; a painting to me is not only an image but a physical material object, which embodies traces of its process of production.

    My abstract work is material-based and process-led: it explores the notion of layering from both a conceptual and material standpoint. My painting process is a cathartic dialogue with the materials, which involves building and unearthing translucent coatings of oil paint and varnish onto plywood, paper and canvas. The resulting paintings are a trace of that dialogue. Through painting, I am the cartographer of a journey through an internal, perhaps imagined, landscape; where each painting acts as a section of an extended landscape that could perhaps exist beyond the frame. The work is playful and colourful, explosive and pensive; poetically confrontational shapes flow between each other, like the meeting of two or more worlds, folding and colliding.

    My painting practice is influenced by my intimate one-to-one performance art work, which involves sensory drawing as a performative act, as well as by my fascination with cartography. I am interested in how mark-making can be used as a way to map layers of subjectivities in relation to space, place and the body. My current project “Unmapping” is both inspired by and acts as an inspiration for my painting practice. It involves leading workshops on collaborative drawing and using participatory cartography as a tool for mining stories and memories to capture abstract images of personal or imagined geographies.

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  • Education

    2009 - 2010

    Queen Mary University of London

    2006 - 2007

    Academia Sztuka Pieknych w Krakowie (Academy of Fine Art in Krakow)

    2004 - 2008

    University of Leeds

  • Upcoming Events

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    Previous events

    Event: Windows

    Dates: 5 Nov 2018 - 17 May 2019

    Venue: GX Gallery, 43 Denmark Hill London SE5 8RS

    Group show curated by Rowan Siddons

    Event: Bold and Explosive

    Dates: 21 Jun 2018 - 31 Jul 2018

    Venue: Jane Newbery, 84 Dulwich Village, Dulwich, London SE21 7AJ

    Solo Show of recent paintings

    Event: Unmapping Tokyo

    Dates: 18 May 2018 - 28 Jun 2019

    Venue: Kosaten, 167-0041 4-1-1 Wada Building 4F, Zenfuku-ji, Suginami-ku, Tokyo

    A solo show presenting my work and research into subjective associations with a local neighbourhood in Tokyo. I presented a multi-channel video installation and a series of drawings.

    Event: 40 x 40

    Dates: 9 Apr 2018 - 4 May 2018

    Venue: GX Gallery, 43 Denmark Hill London SE5 8RS

    Showcasing 40 x 40 cm artworks created specially by invited artists, Forty by Forty 2018 includes painting, mixed media, photography and printmaking.

    Event: Inner Landscapes

    Dates: 27 Oct 2017 - 21 Nov 2017

    Venue: Galerie De Stoker, Amsterdam

    Solo Exhibition exploring the relationship between my painting practice and subjective cartography

    Event: Mixed Media

    Dates: 17 Oct 2017 - 24 Nov 2017

    Venue: GX Gallery, 43 Denmark Hill London SE5 8RS

    Group exhibition of a variety of works

    Event: Magma Group Exhibition

    Dates: 25 Feb 2015 - 1 Mar 2015

    Venue: Espacio Gallery, 15 Bethnal Green Road, London. E2 7DG

    Group show with the Magma Group

    Event: The Instability of Being

    Dates: 16 Oct 2014 - 14 Nov 2014

    Venue: The Griffin Gallery, The Studio Building, 21, Evesham Street, London, W11 4AJ

    The Magma Group of artists, at the invitation of the Griffin Gallery in West London, will be exhibiting for a month on the theme 'The
    Instability of Being'. The private view will be on Thursday 30th October from 6.30-8.30 pm with live music from the Eastern
    European band 'Balabustah'
    The exhibition is a forum for the most exciting, individual and expressive British and international art being made today. The group
    will exhibit paintings, and sculpture, ranging between the figurative and abstract. This is their fifth show, having been invited by The
    Other Art Fair and the Vibe Gallery amongst others in the last 2 years.
    The aims of the Magma Group are to form an alternative path for the current of conceptually expressive contemporary art. Paul
    Carey-Kent says, ' ... the explicitness of the programme behind The Magma Group ... to fuse expressive and conceptual qualities
    ... is particularly unusual.'

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Education

2009 - 2010

Queen Mary University of London

2006 - 2007

Academia Sztuka Pieknych w Krakowie (Academy of Fine Art in Krakow)

2004 - 2008

University of Leeds


There are no upcoming events

Show previous events Hide previous events

Previous events

Event: Windows

Dates: 5 Nov 2018 - 17 May 2019

Venue: GX Gallery, 43 Denmark Hill London SE5 8RS

Group show curated by Rowan Siddons

Event: Bold and Explosive

Dates: 21 Jun 2018 - 31 Jul 2018

Venue: Jane Newbery, 84 Dulwich Village, Dulwich, London SE21 7AJ

Solo Show of recent paintings

Event: Unmapping Tokyo

Dates: 18 May 2018 - 28 Jun 2019

Venue: Kosaten, 167-0041 4-1-1 Wada Building 4F, Zenfuku-ji, Suginami-ku, Tokyo

A solo show presenting my work and research into subjective associations with a local neighbourhood in Tokyo. I presented a multi-channel video installation and a series of drawings.

Event: 40 x 40

Dates: 9 Apr 2018 - 4 May 2018

Venue: GX Gallery, 43 Denmark Hill London SE5 8RS

Showcasing 40 x 40 cm artworks created specially by invited artists, Forty by Forty 2018 includes painting, mixed media, photography and printmaking.

Event: Inner Landscapes

Dates: 27 Oct 2017 - 21 Nov 2017

Venue: Galerie De Stoker, Amsterdam

Solo Exhibition exploring the relationship between my painting practice and subjective cartography

Event: Mixed Media

Dates: 17 Oct 2017 - 24 Nov 2017

Venue: GX Gallery, 43 Denmark Hill London SE5 8RS

Group exhibition of a variety of works

Event: Magma Group Exhibition

Dates: 25 Feb 2015 - 1 Mar 2015

Venue: Espacio Gallery, 15 Bethnal Green Road, London. E2 7DG

Group show with the Magma Group

Event: The Instability of Being

Dates: 16 Oct 2014 - 14 Nov 2014

Venue: The Griffin Gallery, The Studio Building, 21, Evesham Street, London, W11 4AJ

The Magma Group of artists, at the invitation of the Griffin Gallery in West London, will be exhibiting for a month on the theme 'The
Instability of Being'. The private view will be on Thursday 30th October from 6.30-8.30 pm with live music from the Eastern
European band 'Balabustah'
The exhibition is a forum for the most exciting, individual and expressive British and international art being made today. The group
will exhibit paintings, and sculpture, ranging between the figurative and abstract. This is their fifth show, having been invited by The
Other Art Fair and the Vibe Gallery amongst others in the last 2 years.
The aims of the Magma Group are to form an alternative path for the current of conceptually expressive contemporary art. Paul
Carey-Kent says, ' ... the explicitness of the programme behind The Magma Group ... to fuse expressive and conceptual qualities
... is particularly unusual.'


 

Biography

Painting is an essential part of my being; a painting to me is not only an image but a physical material object, which embodies traces of its process of production.

My abstract work is material-based and process-led: it explores the notion of layering from both a conceptual and material standpoint. My painting process is a cathartic dialogue with the materials, which involves building and unearthing translucent coatings of oil paint and varnish onto plywood, paper and canvas. The resulting paintings are a trace of that dialogue. Through painting, I am the cartographer of a journey through an internal, perhaps imagined, landscape; where each painting acts as a section of an extended landscape that could perhaps exist beyond the frame. The work is playful and colourful, explosive and pensive; poetically confrontational shapes flow between each other, like the meeting of two or more worlds, folding and colliding.

My painting practice is influenced by my intimate one-to-one performance art work, which involves sensory drawing as a performative act, as well as by my fascination with cartography. I am interested in how mark-making can be used as a way to map layers of subjectivities in relation to space, place and the body. My current project “Unmapping” is both inspired by and acts as an inspiration for my painting practice. It involves leading workshops on collaborative drawing and using participatory cartography as a tool for mining stories and memories to capture abstract images of personal or imagined geographies.