Biography
Kim is trained in ceramic design her work encompasses ideas based around materiality, geology and place.
Interested in how we react and interact with spaces and forms particularly within an exterior context
Upcoming Events and Exhibitions
Soil, Toil & Table, Letherby Gallery, London Nov 2024
Clay in Conversation with Jo Pearl, Chaired by Tessa Peters, 28th Nov 2024
Soil - The World At Our Feet, Somerset House 23rd Jan- 13th April 2025
haptic/tacit -Edgelands, County Hall Pottery, London, March-April 2025
Tonau: In collaboration with Jane Ponsford and Laura Wainwright for an upcoming exhibition at Oriel Myrddin, Gallery, Carmarthen, Wales. Summer 2026
Education
MA Design Ceramics, Furniture, Jewellery. Specialising in Ceramics. Central Saint Martins 2009-2011
BA Hons Three Dimensional Design Ceramics. Surrey Institute of Art and Design 1993-1996
Art Foundation, Oxford Brookes University, 1992-1993
Experience
Crafts Council Hothouse 3 programme South West Cohort, partnered with the University of Plymouth and the Devon Guild of Craftsmen January- June 2013 Buddy Laura Ellen Bacon
Mentor Frances Lord
Crafts Council Hothouse buddy to Louisa Finch, Spring-Summer 2014
Crafts Council Hothouse 7 mentor to Sarah Hitchens 2017
Mentor to Anne-Laure Cano 2019-2020
Solo Exhibitions
10days Chalk, Winchester Art Biennial October-November 2015
Siobhan Davies Dance, Human Nature- The Growing Season
Exhibition Lines, Levels, Layers June-September 2014
Exhibitions and Shows
Soil Dialogues: curated by Eco Art Space,Dialoghi del Suolo, Conventino, Florence. May 2024
Earthbound: In collaboration with Jane Ponsford, Ground Works: Place-Time-Material Three Storeys, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, June 2021
The Trade Show presented by Faye Toogood, Brompton Design District,
London Design Festival, Sept 2017Sculptural Ceramics and Stone, Pangolin Gallery, London, July-August 2017
Pangolin gallery window, Kings Cross, London, January-February 2017
Craftsmanship alone is not enough: 100 years of Ceramics at Central Saint Martins, Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins, Kings Cross, London, January-February 2017
Perpendicular exhibiting at Arthouse1, Bermondsey, London October-November 2014
Milan Furniture Fair with Designersblock, Museum of Science and Technology, April 2012
British Ceramics Biennial, Re-Fresh, Stoke On Trent, September-November 2011
Designersblock, London Design Festival, Farmiloe Building, Clerkenwell, September 2011
Central Saint Martins Design explorations exhibition, Sackler Centre, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, May 2011
Vogue Street Lights. Organised by Carol Woolton Jewellery editor of Vogue.
In collaboration with Georg Jensen. May 2011
Haptic/Tacit- Collective with Jane Cairns, Grant Aston and Kimberley Chandler
Fieldwork, Groundwork Gallery, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, March-June 2022
Spode Works, British Ceramics Biennial, Spode Museum Trust Heritage Centre, Stoke on Trent, Sept-Oct 2021
In Search of the Vernacular, Thames-side Gallery, London, August 2019
In Search of the Vernacular, Oriel Myrddin Gallery, Carmarthen, Wales, July-October 2018
The Big Draw, Oriel Myrddin, Gallery, Carmarthen, Wales, September 2018
On the Way to Language, Physical Traces of Making, Language and interpretation, Action of Doing, Camberwell Space, London, May 2018
Mentors, Old Fire Station, Oxford, January-March 2017
Mentors, Leyden Gallery, London, October 2016
Residencies
Artist in Residence - Stuart Road Allotments, Nunhead, London, April-Septembet 2024
British Ceramics Biennial 2013 - April-September 2013
Explore - Research Residency a collaborative project with the Crafts Council Hothouse3 ceramicists.
Exhibition dates September-November 2013
Original Spode Site, Stoke on Trent
MA Research Residency, Victoria and Albert Museum Ceramics Studio, February-April 2010
Public Works
Experiential Spaces: Pause
Seating space installed in the garden positioned overlooking the Cherwell River.
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, September 2011
Curatorial
Changing the Landscape: Capability Brown at Syon
Exhibition celebrating tercentenary of Lancelot Capability Brown.
Working in collaboration with Susan Darling garden historian.
Syon Park, June-October 2016
Competitions and awards
Palladium Alliance Jewellery design competition for Vivienne Westwood
December 2010
Teaching and public engagement
The Performing Object: Ceramics as performance. An interdisciplinary symposium, Royal Holloway, Presenting Small Talk with Dr Natasha Mayo and Sam Lucas, April 2024,
A-B Projects Leading Studio Sessions, Spiral Practice, April 2023
Restating Clay Symposium: Ceramic Communities, with haptic/tacit, Cardiff Metropolitan University, September 2019
Clay talks with haptic/tacit at Ceramic Art London, Central Saint Martin, March 2019
Visiting Lecturer, Middlesex University, BA Design Crafts,
Developing practice in design crafts
Oct 2017 – May 2018
Q&A with haptic/tacit artists at the Old Fire Station, Oxford.
Chaired by Kimberley Chandler.
February 2017Exhibition Tour at Siobhan Davies Dance Lines, Levels, Layers. September 2014
Kim Norton in conversation with Laura Ellen Bacon at Siobhan Davies Dance July 2014
Lines, Levels, Layers.In the Garden- Entelechy Arts Movement Workshop, The Garden Museum, Lambeth, London, July 2014
A movement workshop aimed at older participants responding to material generated by the Human-Nature makers.
In collaboration with Entelechy Arts throughout the event.Children's workshop, Goldsmiths Centre
As part of the Chelsea Fringe festival
London, 2013Central Saint Martins Design explorations presentation on material matters, Sackler Centre, Victoria and Albert Museum, London May 2011
GCSE and National Diploma ceramics
Abingdon and Witney College
Oxfordshire, 2007Adult ceramic evening classes Abingdon and Witney College Oxfordshire 2006-2007
Publications
My Body in my Hands, Sam Lucas and Nick Grellier, April 2024.
The Workshop Guide to Ceramics, Duncan Hooson and Anthony Quinn, Thames and Hudson published 2012
Professional Memberships
Crafts Council Directory
Eco Art Space
Linnaean Society
Groundwork Network
Art Axis