Whatâs happening!
Starting the 2024 year off, I am excited to announce that I have work being exhibited at the St. Marys Station Gallery from April 26th until June 8th with 5 other artists. (Chris Alloway, Rose Creamer, Tracy Fulton, Judy Gascho-Jutzi and Carolyn Parks) 5 James street North, St Marys ON
I will be exhibiting artwork in a Summer Exhibition at Agora Gallery in Stratford the beginning Saturday June 15th which runs the entire summer. 100 Downie Street, Stratford, ON
I also submitted work ( a small textile piece) into a travelling exhibition and my piece will be included in the Portugal exhibition. (I believe it ends in December there)
I will also have an artwork included in the Annual Juried Exhibition at the Woodstock Art Gallery beginning Saturday July 13th until Saturday September 21st, 2024. 449 Dundas Street, Woodstock, ON
Finally to end the year I was juried into an exhibition called âExperimental Interventionâ juried by Liesa Rich at the Propeller Gallery in Toronto, Ontario. 30 Abell Street.
To find a little bit more about these exhibitions you can go to my blog page Here. Titled âA Review of 2024 Exhibitionsâ with images too.
2023
To end the year off nicely in 2023, I had the honour to be interviewed by Andres Garzon in podcast format through Centred.ca an online magazine. You can listen to it by clicking this title âAndres Garzon in Conversation with Kim Wilkieâ
I just found out that I have also been short listed to 100 artists for the 100 Kellogg Art Comp this year. (2023) I am looking forward to seeing all the artwork displayed there this year along with one of my wall sculptures!
In 2023 I was included in the List of Artists for the yearly âUpwithArtâ at Museum London. Here is the link to find out more and what artwork I have submitted to help raise funds for homelessness.
My Solo Exhibition called âFoundâ 2023 at the St. Thomas Elgin Public Art Centre in St. Thomas, ON. was wonderful this past year.
It was very exciting to exhibit at Westland Galleryâs group exhibit called âPaper and Textilesâ London, Ontario, Canada, this past September 2022.
In 2022, I also had a Solo Exhibition at Strand Gallery in London, Ontario called âCross Section.â Jill Price interviewed me and asked some really good questions about my artwork. The interview is below.
Spotlight on Kim Wilkie
Kim was interviewed on this video, filmed at the Muse Shop + Rental, at Museum London, in 2016. It is now called âShop Museum Londonâ and you can get to the website Here.
3 Significant Events / My first public exhibition at the St. Thomas Elgin Public Art Centre, 2023, A podcast interview called âAndres Garzon in Conversation with Kim Wilkie, 2023, and the closing of the Garage Gallery Benmiller, 2022.
The St. Thomas Elgin Public Art Centre Exhibition.
The exhibition ran from January 14 to February 18th, 2023 and it was called âFound.â
Here is a video of the âFoundâ exhibition. It is made from found materials from thrift stores, my home property, my studio and found imagined objects or images in my mixed media paintings. The artworks are a kind of invocation through the materials used, and so by using stuffed animals in the sculptures they become child like but can also be signs or symbols of a spiritual nature. Even the found images in the mixed media paintings seem like memories or dreams, or possibly things to come. I hope all the artworks were enjoyed by everyone young at heart.
Below is a Gallery of stills of exhibit if you donât have time to watch the 17 minute video.
The Podcast Interview is a post from November 2023. It is also on Spotify, and on Centred.ca an on line magazine through Centred.ca called âAndres Garzon in Conversation with Kim Wilkieâ
Here is a link to a review by Madeline Lennon on the online magazine Centred.ca on the Exhibition at the Garage Gallery Benmiller called âUnsettling Natureâ with artists Jill Price, Leslie Putnam, Morag Webster and Kim Wilkie.
As of 2022 we have closed the Garage Gallery Benmiller Seasonal Gallery
I am writing here to let everyone know that my husband John and I have decided to close the Garage Gallery Benmiller this year, 2022. We found that we were just a bit out of the way for people to come to see the exhibits here in Benmiller, Ontario. I will continue to work on my art and to exhibit my art in different galleries from here forward. Thank you, to all the artists who exhibited with me here in Benmiller and to those who chose to come to our small gallery to see new contemporary art that we chose to share.
Below are some short videos of each gallery exhibit we had.
I apologize that I did not take a video for the short exhibit in 2017 where Mona Istrati-mulhern, Ruth Maclean, and Linda Wiebe exhibited their work with me in 2017.
2018 Season A 2018 Season B 2019 Season A 2019 Season B 2019 Season C