PROFILE

 
 
 

Kim Baker

kim@fxxp.demon.co.uk

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STATEMENT

LOCATION

LOCATE

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To fix or establish in a place.
To establish oneself in a place.
To allocate, allot, apportion.
To discover the exact locality of a person or a thing.

LOCATION

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The action of placing.
The condition of being placed.
Position in a series.

(Definitions from the Shorter Oxford Engllish Dictionary)

My work concerns itself with human and animal bodies and their products as loci of habitation, residence. Human commodification of animal bodies implies reciprocal disruption, disorder, dismantling, and dislocation of hierarchical positionings.

The work proposes questions, and seeks to identify possible transpositions concerning accepted human / animal taxonomies, placings.

EXHIBITIONS

1995 - 1999

Butley Barn Gallery
Yoxford Gallery
Leiston Abbey
Haste Gallery, Ipswich
Minories, Colchester
Ipswich Hospital
Eastern Open, Kings Lynn
Robert Cross Hall, Ipswich
Artists Gallery, Ipswich
Suffolk Open Studios each year

2002

Pre Text. Norwich School of Art and Design.
Right Sides Together. Norwich Fringe Festival.

2004

Eightfold. MA Textile Culture Exhibition Norwich Gallery

AWARDS AND PRIZES

1997

New Craftsmen Award from Crafts Advisory Committee.

1984

Runner up in Arvon International Poetry Competition,
(judges Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney).

1982 -1989

Numerous prizes for poetry and short stories in regional and national literary competitions.

1989

Financial grant from Ernest Cook Rural Trust to faciliate completion of photographic/ oral history project