Tegen Kimbley
Creating narratives around the everyday and over-looked. Through considered composition, I attempt to generate dialogue around current environmental, social and economic issues, whilst creating a sense of atmosphere and place.
My work is rooted in observation. I am interested in how people shape their surroundings and how those surroundings, in turn, shape us. There is often a personal thread running through my projects, but I like to leave space for viewers to reflect on their own relationships with space, memory and change. I am particularly drawn to locations with layered histories, places in transition, or those that carry the weight of personal or collective memory.
EDUCATION
University of South Wales, BA Photography, September 2015 - June 2018
Stafford College, BTEC Art & Design, Photography Level 390 Credit Diploma, September 2012 - July 2014
COMMISSIONS
Competition Co-Ordinator, Wednesbury through the Lens, Multistory, November - March 2021
Digital Content Creative, Yam Cams, April 2021 - August 2021
RESIDENCIES
2025/26 FORMAT/QUAD Emerging Artist Residency
EXHIBITIONS
2025 Coventry Biennial, Obsessions, Possessions
2025 Nothing Gold Can Stay: Assembly, Multistory, New Art Gallery Walsall
2025 Prism Photography Open 2025, Midlands Arts Centre
2025 Surreal Solihull
2024 Narcissus in Bloom, Ffoto Cymru 2024, University of South Wales, Cardiff
2024 CYCLES, The GAP, Birmingham
2023 Coventry Open, Herbert Art Gallery & Museum
2023 RBSA Photography Prize, Birmingham
2023 Worcester Open: Climate Change Edition, The Art House, Worcester
2022 The Technician Show, The Hyper-Lab, Coventry
2022 Offsite 9, Wolverhampton Outdoor Market
2021 Worcester Open, The Art House, Worcester
2021 Artefact Winter Open, Stirchley / Awarded People's Prize
2020 Art in Lockdown, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Online
2020 The Lighthouse Collaborative, Online
2020 Together/Apart, That Art Gallery, Bristol
2020 Pack in Lockdown, Pack Midlands, Online
2020 Everywoman, Phrame Collective, Senedd Cymru -Welsh Parliament, Cardiff
2018 The Protected Environment, Solo Exhibition, Bute Park Nurseries, Cardiff
2018 MYND I FYNY, BA Group Show, Bay Art, Cardiff
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