KIMBA THOMPSON
Kimba Thompson challenges public perceptions of Aboriginal Art through her innovative use of imagery & multimedia.
Big dOt dOt
Medium: Digital Print
This work explores the complex visual patterns within land and country. By fragmenting and repeating sections of the visual frame, Thompson creates a unique link to the history of Aboriginal painting.
Inspired by a trip to Alice springs, this large scale work uses over 200 layered images to explore a comtemporary abstract view of the land.
Little dOt dOt
Medium: Video Installation
This work explores the complex visual patterns within land and country. By fragmenting and repeating sections of the visual frame to create layered textures, Thompson creates a unique link to the history of Aboriginal painting and stories of the land.
frame by frame
Medium: Video Installation
This work explores the complex visual patterns within Aboriginal traditions of dance, ceremony and storytelling. By fragmenting and repeating sections of the visual frame, Thompson creates a unique link to the history of Aboriginal painting.
These moving tapestries traverse 50,000 years of culture; showing us a different type of connection between the people and the land.
SOIL - Fringe Festival
Medium: Public Art
An interactive, community driven visual art installation that pulled together the vision and power of people from the Indigenous and Tibetan community in a cultural exchange of natural fibers.
SCAR
Medium: Public Art
Artists were encouraged to explore and celebrate themes reflecting Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander history, contemporary issues and the reconciliation process experienced since the 1967 Referendum.
- Exhibited at Melbourne City Square - May 2001 to September 2001
- Permanent location now at Enterprise Park (near Melbourne Aquarium)
- SCAR Web Page
Queer Family - No Camping
Medium: Public Art
Midsumma Artists: Clinton Nain, Destiny Deacon, Craig Charles, Kimba Thompson, Lisa Belair, Lou Bennett. Exhibited at Span Galleries.
