Jonathan Kimberley is an Artist, Senior Curator, Arts Management Consultant and Writer, who currently lives and works in Kamberri / Canberra & lutruwita / Tasmania, Australia.
Kimberley has developed more than 120 contemporary, atemporal, collaborative, transcultural and durational art projects across the continent of Australia and Internationally in the UK, Italy, Japan. His praxis is guided by transcultural truth-telling through art projects as decolonial discussion.
Over the past 30 years he has prioritised decolonial praxis, working closely with First Nations, Local x International & culturally diverse artists and communities. Through his work Kimberley also critiques, recalibrates and decolonises his own complex (proto/post)Western cultural ancestry in the UK, Europe and Australia.
An eighth-generation Australian, whose deep-time ancestral origins are in the UK, Central Europe and Scandinavia, he is a descendant of Edward Kimberley, a First Fleet convict from England who was transported to Sydney in 1788 and later became a colonial free settler in Tasmania in 1808. As such, for Jonathan, “the decolonisation of my Originary identity is of equal importance to the decolonisation of all my relations, both internationally and across the continent of Australia.”
Kimberley’s integrated artistic & curatorial praxis is transdisciplinary enabling manifold forms of enquiry and outcome.
His career combines international art practice and curatorial projects; arts organisation management and consulting; major public art and cultural programs; supporting emerging and senior artists projects and development; interdisciplinary art & cultural research; policy development and advocacy; collaborative cultural strategy and innovative critical thinking.
Kimberley was awarded a PhD | Doctor of Philosophy (International Art Practice as Research) Australian National University, Kamberri / Canberra Australia, developed through Kingston University London, School of Art. He also holds an MFA (Research) University of Western Australia; and a BA (Fine Art) RMIT University Melbourne.
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