Kim’s printmaking and sculpture is based around her cultural and spiritual identity. An abiding theme of her art practice is investigating ways of spiritually reconnecting with the people and land of her father’s Country (Kalkadoon) and her grandmother’s Country (Kuku Yalanji). Kim expresses this reconnection in diverse ways – by representing landscape, or ‘Country’, through rigorous, cross-disciplinary experimentation in a variety of media, including handmade papermaking, print and sculpture.
Responding to how traditional and European materials can be integrated, processes are fundamental to Kim’s conceptual articulation, developing various methods of working that show how the old and the new can combine in a contemporary context. Kim presents the symbiotic relationship between practice and theory by pulping and repurposing her assignments, course outlines, research documentation, power points and personal documents.
Kim’s weaving practice is entirely self-taught, embodying storytelling and knowledge-sharing through unique sculptural forms which examine the landscape’s relationship with the body. Her work explores weaving as a therapeutic practice towards a process of cultural healing and a way to address feelings of disconnection and reconnection with her Country.