biography:
After graduating from the University of Hertfordshire in 2004 with a BA (Hons) in Applied Media Arts (3D), Kimberley Bevan was awarded a five-year fellowship with Digswell Arts Trust. During which time, she began to exhibit in London and Europe while working with other artists on international exhibitions and local educational programs.
In 2009, she was awarded a board trustee position where she continued to work in support of local arts projects in collaboration of various authorities. A few years later, she would leave DAT to develop a new local art group – Elysian, the group of artists worked across several mixed mediums and fed into one another's theories and arts ideologies, her work would grow to be exhibited locally, nationally and internationally.
In 2021, she moved with her family to Norfolk and now teaches for East Coast College as well as Art pocket in central Norwich. Exploring the curious lives of Circus performers, her work is a dramatisation of narrative, colour and texture which pulls the viewer into a vicarious world full of danger and risk.
exhibition/lectures:
2025: Easterly Group Exhibition at First Light, Lowestoft, Suffolk.
"Ways of seeing" (Easterly featuring Laurence Edwards), Holton Lodge Barn Art Gallery, Suffolk.
2023: Norwich Art Fair
Anteros Art Tutor
2022 : Paint Out Norfolk Plein Air Competition.
Cista Arts Online Exhibition: Light and Shadow
Prior 2021:
Loss
and Lucidity” Lisbon, Portugal. Curated by D Ali (BBC). Lisbon Portugal.
Awarded
Private commission: International company H &K Strategies, London
Headquarters.
Published in
Quotes: Inspirational Quotations/Creative Responses. Strawlitter publications.
Private
Commissions for Book publication on Human Identity. a Vinci Workshop, N. Winston.
“Loss
and Lucidity”
International USA Exhibition (LA), curated by BBC artist D Ali.
"Alternative
Perception”
Collaborative exhibition by Bevan and Gale,
Hertfordshire.
“Perception”
Curated by Mariya Takeuchi, Goddamn Media Art gallery,
Brighton.
“Trick of the Mind” Article
published by Artworld.
Summer Salon” Angus-Hughes
Gallery, London.
“Southwark Art Fair”, Hayes Galleria,
London Bridge.
“Are you Human” Curated
by K.Hays of Loose Group. Camden Art Gallery, London.
“From Here to
There – USA/Wales”, Clara Hatton
Gallery, Colorado.
Elysium Gallery,
Swansea.
Tutoring/Qualifications:
2021 - Current: East Coast College Lecturer (Teaching Diploma and Degree, Completed PGCE HE)
Art Pocket, Norwich and Anteros, Norwich.
2018 - 2021: Oil Painting Tutor for The Settlement, Letchworth, Hertfordshire.
2014 - 2021: Adult Art Tutor, Stevenage Leisure Center, Hertfordshire.
2009 - 2011: Trustee Digswell Arts Trust, Hertfordshire.
2006 - 2008: POTS OF HERITAGE: Social Enterprise Ceramic Project: Commissioned By University of Hertfordshire, in collaboration with Artist Marion Hewitt (Glass Artist)., Knebworth House, North Herts College, Art Van Go.
2005-2021: Adult Art Tutor, CW Entertainment, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire.
2004: Awarded 5 yrs. Fellowship with Digswell Arts Trust, Hertfordshire.
2004: BA (HONS) APPLIED MEDIA ARTS - 3D, UNIVERSITY OF HERTSFORDSHIRE.
2001: FOUNDATION IN ART AND DESIGN, NORTH HERTS COLLEGE, HERTSFORDSHIRE.
2000: A-LEVEL ART AND DESIGN, NORTH HERTS COLLEGE, HERTSFORDSHIRE.