Kim Mobey’s painting, printmaking, installations and sculpture articulate a self-conscious outsider’s perspective on on global histories, leadership and contemporary cultural and political cross-pollination. She investigates and challenges gender, race and class as ideologies both in her work and in the broader sphere.
Her work utilises traditional media and materials as well as experimental applications of new materials, techniques and mixed media including collage, calcite printing, sculpture, performance, installation and sustainable architecture. She develops all her works with an emphasis on permanence, history and creating meaningful works – of value to the current and future generations.
A passionate autodidact and educator, she continually studies and teaches technical skills, art history, languages, sculpture, installation, performance, painting and printmaking through events, digital media and providing art internships and residencies at her Cape Town studio.
Galleries:
Selected Exhibitions
Group
2012 – Western Cape Premier, Official Residence “See the Point, Darling” Capetown
2013 – Knysna Fine Art Gallery “Pink Loerie Show”, Knysna
2015 – Grand Daddy Group Show, Capetown
2015 – MOMO Gallery “Les is More” Johannesburg
2017 – The Architect, PPC Imaginarium Finalist show, Capetown
2017 – The V&A Watershed, Inaugural Art Africa Fair, Capetown
2017 – The Cape Gallery “Dream Now, Dream Not”, Capetown
2017 – UJ Gallery, Imaginaruim group show, Johannesburg
2017 – Turbine Art Fair, Johannesburg
2017 – September – Art @ The Clocktower. “It is not all Black and White”, Capetown
2017 – November – Art @ The Clocktower.”Tides of Talent” Cape Town
2018 – February – Investec Cape Town Art Fair “Art at Africa”, Cape Town
2018 – March – The Cape Gallery “Illusive Reality”, Cape Town
2018 – Ongoing – SOS V&A World Water Day Group Installation Projects
Solo
2011 November – Knysna Art Gallery – Knysna “Anywhere but Here”
2015 March – Gallery Lala, New York “African Portraits”
Curator
2012 May – The Knysna Gallery “The Naked Truth”, Knysna
2014 September to December – “Grand Daddy” Group Show, Cape Town
Competitions
2017 January – Sculpture Finalist, PPC Imaginarium Awards
2017 September – World of Design Competition finalist: For the Love of CONCRETE Capetown
Charities and Projects
I support these causes with donations of artwork for auction, public speaking or participation in group projects. If you have a significant cause you would like me to consider contributing towards, use the contact form HERE and send me your proposal. (please note I have finite time so I have to be very selective)
2014 – City of Capetown, World Design Center “Hands of Honour” Part of the “Man on the Side of the Road” employment initiative
2014 – City of Cape Town, World Design Center “WDC/MURP Co-design workshop” facilitating community involvement in urban upliftment in impoverished areas
2014 (Ongoing) – Paint it Forward – A collective of artists painting uplifting murals in the children’s wards of public hospitals
2014 (Ongoing) – Call to Care “Paint and Sip” fundraising for sustainable food gardening workshops in impoverished areas
2016 – The AfrAsia Bank Cape Wine Auction, Cape Town, Groot Constantia Wine Farm in aid of education in the South African Winelands
2017 (Ongoing) – Catwalk to Freedom
In aid of education and sanctuary for child brides in Sudan, Uganda and Kenya
2018 (Ongoing) – SOS Save Our Schools & Water 4 Cape Town
In aid of practical, ongoing water collection and delivery to vulnerable communities during the Western Cape Drought.
Links
Interview with Nosana Sondiyazi
Photo Essay by Melody Chironda on AllAfrica.com
More interviews, talks and updates and love on Patreon
