Biography

Kim Montgomery

Kim Montgomery lives in Northern Ireland.

Education
Kim studied Fine and Applied Arts at Ulster University, Belfast. She qualified as an Art & Design and Special Educational Needs teacher at Ulster University, Coleraine. She completed a Post-Graduate Certificate in Fine Art at Wimbledon College of Art (University of the Arts London), specialising in drawing. She has work in public collections, including, Ulster University, CCEA, and Education Authority Northern Ireland. She has exhibited art work in public galleries across the UK, including Bow Arts, London, Context Galleries, Derry and The Naughton Gallery, Queens, Belfast.

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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 female fan gaze and romance. 

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Selected Experiences as a Practising Visual Artist
2019
'Vikings' permanent work commissioned by Mid and East Antrim Borough Council. 
2018
-Solo show, ‘These Escapists’; Conservatory Gallery, Clotworthy, Antrim Castle Gardens.
-Catalyst Arts 25th Anniversary Members' Show, Catalyst Arts, Belfast.
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.