Kim Coleman (b. N.IRELAND, UK) is an artist working across expanded moving image, photographic processes, intelligent lighting and live performance.

kim’s solo projects include borrowed bodies, five years (LONDon, 2023)produced by Phill Wilson perkin; OHMMG, commissioned for festival of the not, the star and shadow, (Newcastle, UK, 2019) curated by giles bailey and circa projects; winter sun commissioned for granary square, kings cross (London, UK, 2014); and suntrap, commissioned for msdockville festival, (hamburg, 2011). her photographic work has been featured in major group shows including GRACE before jones, Nottingham Contemporary-curated by cedric fauq (2021), and heaven and hell, Tom of Finland Foundation, curated by Jess scott and seth bogart (LOS ANGELES 2020). between 2011 and 2015 Coleman designed and creatively directed live stage shows and tours (lighting, video, set, costume) for Scottish rock bands including django django, veronica falls, and franz Ferdinand.

coleman is a frequent coauthor. Her PhD project ‘If they be two: relationships in co-authored experimental moving image by women’ addressed relationships between coauthors of Moving Image -including herself-considering desires to work in this way. as part of the project she was LUX MOVING IMAGE ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE (2021). COLEMAN’s coauthored works-with susie green, care tolmie and zoe poluch, Matthew noel-tod, and laura buckley, have been presented at Tate St.Ives (2020), Palais de Tokyo (2020), FRAC Champagne-Ardenne (2020), The Showroom (2016), Block Universe performance festival (2017), and Block 336 (2016). Between 2003 and 2013 COLEMAN co-authored moving image and live work with JENNY HOGARTH. their work includes ‘If You Can’t See My Mirrors I Can’t See You’ (2010) commissioned for Serpentine Gallery’s CINACT programme London; ‘Staged’ (2010) produced by the Collective Gallery for Edinburgh Art Festival; ‘An Infusion of the Evening Air’ (2010) for Glasgow International Open Glasgow commission; ‘Players’ (2009) for Frieze Projects; ‘Glare’ (2009) for S1Artspace, Sheffield; and ‘Kim Coleman & Jenny Hogarth with the Boyle family’ (2008) for the ICA. Their work has also been shown at Tate Britain (London); Phillips De Pury NY (US); Picture This (Bristol); Talbot Rice Gallery (Edinburgh); Catalyst Arts (Belfast), Minneapolis St-Paul Film Festival (2011) and Circa Projects’, Newcastle (2012). IN 2021 THE artists rekindled their collaboration for a digital residency with Axisweb, producing a new video work, ’The Mechanics of Love’ (2021) a prequel and sequel to ‘If You Can’t See My Mirrors I Can’t See You’ (2010).

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TEXTS 

Inga Fraser on Kim Coleman's photography ~ What the flame of a candle looks like after the candle has been blown out 

Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth on their AXIS moving image commission and their co-authorship ~ On Reflection

Francis McKee on Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth's Staged commission for the City of Edinburgh - Pale Blue Dots​

INTERVIEWS

2021 Rachel Warriner interviews Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth on their video The Mechanics of Love - MoL Interview 

CONTACT

KIMCOLEMANPROJECTS@GMAIL.COM