Kim Donaldson

Dr Kim Donaldson is a visual artist, writer and curator. She was awarded a PhD from the University of Melbourne and in 2025 works in the Master of Contemporary Art, Victorian College of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music. In 1983, Donaldson was one of the inaugural studio artists at 200 Gertrude Street. Donaldson participated in the Gertrude Street Spaces Artist Collective and Studios at 200 Gertrude Street from 1983 to 1987.

Donaldson has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally. Her expertise extends to drawing, painting, video, installation, performance and the curatorial. Her interest in concepts such as the ‘artist as curator’, and the spatial, experiential dimensions of exhibitions and events have underpinned much of her non-traditional research activities since the 1990s. Her PhD, Technotopiary: another formation of the curatorial (2016) drew from experience gained at the exhibition space Techno Park Studios that she founded and curated in Melbourne’s western suburbs (2009–2015). In 2022 she established Cūrā8 (with Dr Sean Lowry) for Project8 Gallery. Another significant thread in her research is embodied new materialist art practice with the Feminist Colour-IN(2016–to date), an ongoing collaboration with Dr Katve-Kaisa Kontturi, art theorist and writer based in Finland, focusing on feminist activism through colouring and drawing.