I acknowledge that I am a settler living on the land

and waters of Nipissing First Nation. It is the

past, present and future home of the

 Anishinaabe, covered by the

Robinson-Huron & Upper

Canada Treaties.

I am deeply grateful to call this home

and committed to individual and collective efforts

towards Truth & Reconciliation as betrayal by

church and state continue to this day.

I desire to honour truths, expressing my heartfelt gratitude to the generations of stewards, both land and water protectors, who for thousands of years have

taken care of the Earth and Her Beings.

 

Kim Kitchen: Settler, Artist, Activist, Mother now Crone.

A graduate of White Mountain Academy, Kim has exhibited painting, sculpture, mixed media, installation, photography and performance across Canada. Her practice driven by materials found in the natural environment of her home in Northern Ontario. She worked for years with lichen as a material for casting, works that examine the unfolding reality of the body as landscape. Kim’s paintings are a study of what has been lost and now found, fossilized and excavated objects, a collaboration of memory, messages, geography and time. Performance art has linked her experience as a front line counsellor to actions required in shifting the established paradigm.

In recent years Kim sought a more accessible means to art making conducive to her new reality of disability. Audio & video emerged as a friendly, gentle, no friction medium. With significant changes in mobility, old spaces become unknown insofar as the body must learn anew to navigate through them. The familiar becomes unfamiliar, and the body is tasked with relearning how to exist.

Kim resonates with the collaboration of various media, reflecting on what is required for a life of exploration; stepping outside of isolation, partnerships equipped with diversity, inter-dependence and collaboration.