Kim Norton
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Kim is trained within ceramics, her work encompasses ideas based around the physicality of clay, pushing materiality through scale and presenting ceramics through a less conventional lens. Seclusion, encasement, retreat, and quietness are also key drivers within Kim's practice particularly interested in the phenomenology of architectural spaces which feeds in to Installations, site specific projects, commissions and residency programmes that make up her practice. Larger scale spacial works are undertaken with her collaborative partner Sasha Mazur- Knyazeva a friendship that formed during their MA at Central Saint Martins. The collaborative work is focused around ideas that involve the human senses and emotional response or experience through exploring spaces and the immersive quality within different environments, crossing contexts that bridge art, design and craft. In 2013 Kim was selected for the Crafts Council's Hothouse3 programme partnered with Plymouth University and The Devon Guild of Craftsman.
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Qualifications and training
2013 - Crafts Council Hothouse 3, Crafts Council, London, Plymouth University, Devon Guild.
2011 - MA Design - Ceramic Design,, Central Saint Martins, London
1993 - 1996 BA Three dimensional design ceramics Surrey Institute of Art and Design. Farnham
Solo Exhibitions
2015 - 10 Days Winchester Chalk, Theatre Royal, Winchester.
2014 - Lines,Levels,layers. Siobhan Davies Dance, London
Group exhibitions
2022 - Fieldwork, Groundwork Gallery, Kings Lynn, Norfolk
2021 - Earthbound: In collaboration with Jane Ponsford, Ground Works: Place-Time-Material Three Storeys, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire
2021 - Spode Works, British Ceramics Biennial, Spode Museum Trust Heritage Centre, Stoke on Trent
2019 - In Search of the Vernacular, Thames-side Gallery, London
2018 - In Search of the Vernacular, Oriel Myrddin Gallery, Carmarthen, Wales
2017- Mentors with haptic/tacit at The Old Fire Station, Oxford
2016 - Mentors with Haptic/Tacit a group exhibition at the Leyden Gallery
2014 - Perpendicuar, Arthouse1, Bermondsey, London
2013 - Explore: Research Residency British Ceramics Biennual, Spode, Stoke on Trent
2012 - Milan Furniture Fair, Museum of Science and Technology, Milan
2011 - British Ceramics Biennual, Spode, Stoke on Trent Residencies
2011 - Material Matters MA exhibition and a series of talks at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
2010 - MA Research Residency, Victoria and Albert Museum, Ceramics Studio 6th floor
Corporate commissions
2011 - Vogue Street Lights (Collaboration with Anne Frobeen), Georg Jensen, Bond Street London Site specific
Site Specific and installations
2011 - Pause - Experiential Spaces, Lady Margaret Hall - Oxford University, Oxford
Curatorial
2016 - Changing the Landscape: Capability Brown at Syon - Syon Park, London
Teaching and Education
2014 - Entelechy Arts, Depford, London in collaboration with Siobhan Davies Dance
2012 - Childrens art workshop,goldsmiths Centre, London
2006 - 2007 Adults evening classes in ceramics, Abingdon and Witney College, Oxfordshire
1996 - 1998 Childrens art workshops,Oxford