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Biography

Kim Montgomery
Kim Montgomery lives in Larne, Northern Ireland.

Education and experiences
-Completed BA Honours Fine and Applied Arts at Ulster University, Belfast, 2004.

-Qualified as an Art & Design and Special Educational Needs teacher at Ulster University, Coleraine, 2005.
-Completed Post-Graduate Certificate in Fine Art specialising in drawing, at University of the Arts London (Wimbledon College of Art).
-Public collections include, Ulster University, CCEA, and Education Authority Northern Ireland.
-Art exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across the UK. Venues include The Nunnery Gallery (Bow Arts, London), Context Galleries (Derry), The Naughton Gallery, Queens (Belfast).
-Work published in ‘Abridged’ art and poetry publication since 2006 - 2020.
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Kim uses drawing, painting, collage and sculpture in her work to construct real and imagined narratives. She works from personal and found imagery of humans, animals, places and objects. Kim’s work expresses what she likes.


Virtual Art Tour of Larne video by Larne Renovation Generation and Mid and East Antrim Borough Council (MEABC), featuring my public art work ‘Vikings’, situated in Larne town centre, between Larne Main Street and Exchange Road car park:
https://www.facebook.com/MEABoroughCouncil/videos/1192274941122201/
Selected Experiences as a Practising Visual Artist


2020
-Arts Council NI recipient of Individuals Emergency Resilience Fund.
2019
-'Vikings' public art work panel commissioned by Mid and East Antrim Borough Council.
-Mid and East Antrim Borough Council’s Lamp-post banner project ‘Favourite artists’ coordinating Roddensvale School pupils’ art contributions.
2018
-Solo show, ‘These Escapists’; Conservatory Gallery, Clotworthy, Antrim Castle Gardens.
-Catalyst Arts 25th Anniversary Members' Show, Catalyst Arts, Belfast.
-Mid and East Antrim Borough Council’s Lamp-post banner art, ‘Dancing in the street’, contributing artist, Larne Main Street.
2014
Linen Hall Library: two person show of paintings and drawings responding to poet Samuel Ferguson’s poem ‘Willy Gilliland’.

2009-2010
Naughton Gallery at Queens University, Belfast;Seamus Heaney Centre for Language at Queen’s University; Castle Espie: At Least Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, travelling and permanent group exhibitions.

2009
Bow Arts, London; MA Interim Show, group exhibition.

2008
Centre For Drawing, Wimbledon College of Art, solo project, ‘10 Years of Emulating the Strokes’.
2006
Context Galleries, Derry, Solo show of paintings, collages, drawings and sculptures,‘Neither You Nor I Are What We Hope To Become Someday’.

2006
Context Galleries, Derry, Nominated to represent Context Gallery for AIB Artist Award.

2005 (ongoing)
‘Abridged’ publication of poetry and art, visual arts contributor.
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