KIM THORNTON
  • About
  • Work
    • The Mantle of Invisibility
    • Venus Ascending
    • The Changing of the Roll
    • The Colossus
    • From Rags to Riches
    • The Privy Cap
    • Embroidering Truth
    • Bread and Circuses
    • Lady in Blue on the Beach
    • The Assumption
    • Still Life with Cabbage
    • Stay Alert
    • Don't Stand so Close to Me
    • The Bouquet
    • Kitchen Sphinx
    • Blue Odalisque
    • The Sanctury
    • Hestia and the Daily Miracles
    • Pas de Deux
    • The Scream
    • Sugar in my Bowl
    • Angel of the South
    • Garden Spells
    • Domestic Heptathlon
    • Raising The Bridge
    • Home Entertainment
    • Kitchen Accidents
    • Notes to Self
    • A Public Airing
    • The Skater
    • The Smile on her Face
    • The Awakening Conscience
    • Living The Dream
    • Kitchen Travels
    • Yellow Apron
    • Sirens
    • 2011 A Kitchen Odyssey
    • The Domestic Alchemist
    • Peace Pants
    • Life Stages
    • Knitty City
    • Secret Spaces
  • News
  • CV
  • Links
  • Contact

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS


SOLO 
2023

The Changing of the Roll, film screening, The Island, Bristol
2018
Home Entertainment, Arts at the Old Fire Station, Oxford (supported by Arts Council England)

TWO PERSON
2025

Meet me in the Bathroom, Bell House, London with Lucy Soni
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​GROUP
2025

Clothes You'll Never Wear: Skin Deep, Blue House Yard, London
The Incidentals, Bell House, London
2024
ATIFF2024:  The Attic Theatre International Film Festival, Newcastle Emlyn, Wales
Clothes You'll Never Wear, 4 Garden Walk, London
RA Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London

The Tipping Point, Bell House, London
2023
Utchi-Soto, Bangkok
Windows and Thresholds - Beyond Closed Doors, Bell House, London 
2022
Ways of Seeing : Green, Bell House, London
​The Everyday, Fronteer Gallery Basement Space, Sheffield
From 1 to 100:  Gender equality in your life, Farm Cultural Park, Sicily
Salon/20, Photofusion, London

2021
Performative Acts of the Everyday, DFBRL8R Gallery, Chicago
2020
Second Wave, Hundred Heroines Film Festival
​Body \\ Politic, Susan Boutwell Gallery, Munich

2019
Salon/19, Photofusion, London
Pillow Talk, Austrian Cultural Forum, London
Return of Come Kiss A Stranger - Why Don't You...? HQ Satellite Space, London
Representation on the line II:  (Un)framing our Identities, RPS Hundred Heroines Hub, Chelsea, London then touring to Blackpool & Doncaster
Travellers, HContemporary, Seongnam, Republic of Korea
Work-Shop, Bell House, Dulwich, London
Ex Voto, The Ritzy, Brixton, London

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2018
Casting Off, Brighton Photo Fringe, Gallery Lock In, Brighton
Presenting Mostly Yourselves, SixCaroline Place, Plymouth
​Dreaming Awake, Dulwich Festival, London
Pillow Talk, Uniqlo Tate Late, London


2017
Salon/17, Photofusion, London
Why don't you...? HQ, Artlicks Weekend, London
Femfest, Sweet'Art, London
Structured Magic, Hoxton, London
OVADA Seven Counties Open, Oxford
FF Conversation, Women in Photo, instagram
How to make an archive travel, Goldsmiths Women's Art Library, App

2016
Salon/16, Photofusion, London
Raising the Bridge, Tower Bridge, London
Pillow Talk, BBC, London
​Pillow Talk, TEDx at UCL, London 

2015
Islington Summer Salon, London
Tides of Change, Tower Bridge Engine Rooms, London 

2014
Salon/14, Photofusion, London
The Disorder of Things, The Artworks, London
Finders Keepers Losers Weepers, Conway Hall, London
Missing Narrative, Brixton East, London

2013
A Public Airing, Parliament Week performance project by SLWA in London (lead artist)
Piecework, Espacio Gallery, London
Swimming Against The Tide, Hide Gallery, London   
Postgraduate Summer Show, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London
Perfect Patio, Space Station Sixty Five, London
"THOTS" AND... (invited contributor), Mile End Pavilion, London
The Last Rasp, Our House Gallery, London 
In Two Parts, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London
I’m Inside Ring The Bell, 47/49 Tanner Street, London

2012    
Tropical Lab 6, ICA Singapore
Bend Over Shirley, Beaconsfield Gallery, London
A Machine for Living, Hannah Barry Gallery, London
Snap!, Bankside Gallery, London
Daily Weekly, Queensland College of Art, Australia 
Material Actions, Bath Spa University, Bath

2011
Material Actions, Create, Bristol 
Filter, Baylors & Diamond, London
Home from Home, 153 Woodhouse Lane, Leeds 

2010
Material Actions, Centre for Contemporary Art & the Natural World, Exeter
Material Actions, Viewpoint Gallery, Plymouth College of Art
ArtCraftDesign Dialogue, Caterham School 
South London Women Artists, Bankside Gallery, London
Bodies Transformed, Crypt Gallery at St Pancras, London

2009
The London Group Open Exhibition, Menier Gallery, London
Artworks Open 2009, Barbican Arts Group, London
Celebrating Women Artists, Dulwich Library, London
Oxford Contemporary, OVADA, Oxford

2008
Barbs, Redgate Gallery, London
An Awkward Apprehension,O Art, Vyner Street, London
Codex, Cushions & Cake, Ideaspace, Peckham, London
CURATING
2023
Windows and Thresholds, Bell House, London
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2022

Ways of Seeing : Green, Bell House, London

2019
Work-Shop, Bell House, London
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​2018
Dreaming Awake, Dulwich Festival, London
Pillow Talk, Uniqulo Tate Late, London

2017​
Picture This..., Bell House, London
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2016
Pillow Talk, BBC, London
​Pillow Talk, TEDx at UCL, London 

AWARDS
2022 Artspace Lifespace residency at Mansion House, Ashton Court, Bristol 
2018 Arts Council England funding award
2015 Selected winner Tides of Change exhibition, Tower Bridge Engine Room, London

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  • About
  • Work
    • The Mantle of Invisibility
    • Venus Ascending
    • The Changing of the Roll
    • The Colossus
    • From Rags to Riches
    • The Privy Cap
    • Embroidering Truth
    • Bread and Circuses
    • Lady in Blue on the Beach
    • The Assumption
    • Still Life with Cabbage
    • Stay Alert
    • Don't Stand so Close to Me
    • The Bouquet
    • Kitchen Sphinx
    • Blue Odalisque
    • The Sanctury
    • Hestia and the Daily Miracles
    • Pas de Deux
    • The Scream
    • Sugar in my Bowl
    • Angel of the South
    • Garden Spells
    • Domestic Heptathlon
    • Raising The Bridge
    • Home Entertainment
    • Kitchen Accidents
    • Notes to Self
    • A Public Airing
    • The Skater
    • The Smile on her Face
    • The Awakening Conscience
    • Living The Dream
    • Kitchen Travels
    • Yellow Apron
    • Sirens
    • 2011 A Kitchen Odyssey
    • The Domestic Alchemist
    • Peace Pants
    • Life Stages
    • Knitty City
    • Secret Spaces
  • News
  • CV
  • Links
  • Contact