Kimbal Quist Bumstead
Artist Bio
Kimbal’s abstract painting practice is materials-based and process-led: it explores the notion of layering from both a conceptual and material standpoint.
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Artist Statement
Kimbal's abstract work is material-based and process-led: it explores the notion of layering from both a conceptual and material standpoint. His 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.
More about the artist:
Kimbal Quist Bumstead (UK/NL b. 1986) is an interdisciplinary artist based in London. He trained in Fine Art at the University of Leeds and the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, followed by a Masters degree in Performance and Theatre from Queen Mary University of London. His paintings are currently represented at the GX Gallery, Orso Major, and Jane Newbery galleries in London. His paintings have been included in various corporate and private collections. He is an associate member of Livingmaps Network and is a freelance workshop leader.
He has produced much of his artwork in the context of Artist in Residence projects including HaMiffal, Jerusalem, 3rd on 3rd New York, and Kosaten, Tokyo. Recent London exhibitions include The Mall Galleries, GX Gallery, Crows Nest Gallery, Centre for Recent Drawing, Espacio Gallery, and the Griffin Gallery. Also beyond London at Turner Contemporary Margate, Museum of Modern Art Espoo, and De Stoker Amsterdam.
Artists CV
2021
Solo exhibition - Basement Arts Project, Leeds
2020
Solo exhibition - Studio 73 Brixton, London
Contemporary Fine Art (Group) - Art Number 23 Gallery, London
2019
Art for Youth (Group) - Mall Galleries, London
2018
Windows (Group) - GX Gallery, London,
Solo exhibition - Jane Newbery Gallery, London
2017
Solo exhibition - De Stoker, Amsterdam
Massaging the Message (Group) - Arthouse1, London,
