Intricately detailed drawing has always been at the core of Kim Anderson’s practice as she explores our complicated relationship with the natural world.  Interweaving themes of interdependency, accountability, vulnerability and resilience, she navigates the ever-shifting boundaries between our inner and outer domains, often using elements of the external landscape as metaphors for intense psychological states.

Anderson completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at the University of Ballarat Arts Academy in 2003, and in 2007 she was awarded a scholarship to undertake a Master of Fine Art at the University of Dundee in Scotland.  In 2010 she received an ArtStart Grant from the Australia Council, and she has created and curated projects supported by Arts Victoria, the City of Melbourne, and Regional Arts Victoria.  Anderson has undertaken a number of residencies around the world including an Australia Council Studio Residency at the British School at Rome, Australia House in Echigo-Tsumari, Japan, Hospitalfield House in Arbroath, Scotland, Murray’s Cottage in Hill End, NSW, the University of Tasmania and Scotch Oakburn College in Launceston, Tasmania, and the Bundanon Trust in NSW.  In 2016 she undertook a three-month residency at DRAWinternational in Caylus, France, which was supported by the Ian Potter Cultural Trust, the Copyright Agency, and Creative Partnerships Australia.  In 2019 Anderson was the recipient of the Jon Schueler Scholarship, a three-month residency at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, National Centre for Gaelic Language, Culture and the Arts on the Isle of Skye, Scotland.

Anderson has exhibited both in Australia and abroad with solo exhibitions in Melbourne, Hobart, Launceston, Mildura, Bendigo, Bathurst, Ballarat and Japan.  She has been a finalist in numerous national awards including the Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award (2022, 2020), Muswellbrook Art Prize (2022), Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize (2021, People’s Choice Winner 2019), the National Works on Paper Award (2020), the Swan Hill Print and Drawing Award (2020, People’s Choice Award 2014, 2012), Lyn McCrea Drawing Prize (People’s Choice Award 2019), Paul Guest Award (2018, 2016), and the Rick Amor Drawing Prize (2016, 2014, 2012).

Along with more traditional works on paper, Anderson has also created ephemeral installation projects incorporating site-specific drawing, translucent suspended materials, projection and soundscapes.  Recent significant projects include Languid to the Moon, a collaboration with a poet and sound artist commissioned by the Art Gallery of Ballarat in 2021, and The Space Between, a visual/sound installation presented at the inaugural White Night Ballarat in 2017 before travelling to Hobart in 2018.