Biography

Kim is trained in ceramic design her work encompasses ideas based around materiality, geology and place.
Interested in how we react and interact with spaces and forms particularly within an exterior context

Upcoming Events and Exhibitions

The Performing Object: Ceramics as performance An interdisciplinary symposium, Royal Holloway 24th April 2024 presenting Small Talk with Natasha Mayo and Sam Lucas

Collaboration with Jane Ponsford and Laura Wainwright for an upcoming exhibition at Oriel Myrddin, Gallery, Carmarthen, Wales. Summer 2025

Education

• MA Design Ceramics, Furniture, Jewellery. Specialising in Ceramics. Central Saint Martins 2009-2011

• BA Hons Three Dimensional Design Ceramics. Surrey Institute of Art and Design 1993-1996

• Art Foundation, Oxford Brookes University, 1992-1993

Experience 

• Crafts Council Hothouse 3 programme South West Cohort, partnered with the University of Plymouth and the Devon Guild of Craftsmen January- June 2013 Buddy Laura Ellen Bacon

  Mentor Frances Lord

• Crafts Council Hothouse buddy to Louisa Finch, Spring-Summer 2014

• Crafts Council Hothouse 7 mentor to Sarah Hitchens 2017

• Mentor to Anne-Laure Cano 2019-2020

Solo Exhibitions

• 10days Chalk, Winchester Art Biennial October-November 2015

• Siobhan Davies Dance, Human Nature- The Growing Season

  Exhibition Lines, Levels, Layers June-September 2014

Exhibitions and Shows

• Earthbound: In collaboration with Jane Ponsford, Ground Works: Place-Time-Material Three Storeys, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, June 2021

• The Trade Show presented by Faye Toogood, Brompton Design District, 
  London Design Festival, Sept 2017

• Sculptural Ceramics and Stone, Pangolin Gallery, London, July-August 2017

• Pangolin gallery window, Kings Cross, London, January-February 2017

• Craftsmanship alone is not enough: 100 years of Ceramics at Central Saint Martins, Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins, Kings Cross, London, January-February 2017
  

• Perpendicular exhibiting at Arthouse1, Bermondsey, London October-November 2014

• Milan Furniture Fair with Designersblock, Museum of Science and Technology, April 2012

• British Ceramics Biennial, Re-Fresh, Stoke On Trent, September-November 2011
  

• Designersblock, London Design Festival, Farmiloe Building, Clerkenwell, September 2011

• Central Saint Martins Design explorations exhibition, Sackler Centre, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, May 2011
  

• Vogue Street Lights. Organised by Carol Woolton Jewellery editor of Vogue.
  In collaboration with Georg Jensen. May 2011

 Haptic/Tacit- Collective with Jane Cairns, Grant Aston and Kimberley Chandler

• Fieldwork, Groundwork Gallery, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, March-June 2022

• Spode Works, British Ceramics Biennial, Spode Museum Trust Heritage Centre, Stoke on Trent, Sept-Oct 2021

• In Search of the Vernacular, Thames-side Gallery, London, August 2019

• In Search of the Vernacular, Oriel Myrddin Gallery, Carmarthen, Wales, July-October 2018

• The Big Draw, Oriel Myrddin, Gallery, Carmarthen, Wales, September 2018

• On the Way to Language, Physical Traces of Making, Language and interpretation, Action of Doing, Camberwell Space, London, May 2018

• Mentors, Old Fire Station, Oxford, January-March 2017

• Mentors, Leyden Gallery, London, October 2016

Residencies 

• Artist in Residence - Stuart Road Allotments April-August 2024

• British Ceramics Biennial 2013 - April-September 2013

  Explore - Research Residency a collaborative project with the Crafts Council Hothouse3 ceramicists.

  Exhibition dates September-November 2013

  Original Spode Site, Stoke on Trent

• MA Research Residency, Victoria and Albert Museum Ceramics Studio, February-April 2010

• Public Works

• Experiential Spaces: Pause
  Seating space installed in the garden positioned overlooking the Cherwell River.
  Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, September 2011

Curatorial 

• Changing the Landscape: Capability Brown at Syon
  Exhibition celebrating tercentenary of Lancelot Capability Brown.
  Working in collaboration with Susan Darling garden historian.
  Syon Park, June-October 2016

Competitions and awards

• Palladium Alliance Jewellery design competition for Vivienne Westwood
  December 2010

Teaching and public engagement

• A-B Projects Leading Studio Sessions, Spiral Practice, April 2023

• Restating Clay Symposium: Ceramic Communities, with haptic/tacit, Cardiff Metropolitan University, September 2019

• Clay talks with haptic/tacit at Ceramic Art London, Central Saint Martin, March 2019

• Visiting Lecturer, Middlesex University, BA Design Crafts,
  Developing practice in design crafts
  Oct 2017 – May 2018

• Q&A with haptic/tacit artists at the Old Fire Station, Oxford.
  Chaired by Kimberley Chandler.
  February 2017
  

• Exhibition Tour at Siobhan Davies Dance Lines, Levels, Layers. September 2014
  

• Kim Norton in conversation with Laura Ellen Bacon at Siobhan Davies Dance July 2014
  Lines, Levels, Layers.
  

• In the Garden- Entelechy Arts Movement Workshop, The Garden Museum, Lambeth, London, July 2014
  A movement workshop aimed at older participants responding to material generated by the Human-Nature makers.
  In collaboration with Entelechy Arts throughout the event.
  

• Children's workshop, Goldsmiths Centre
  As part of the Chelsea Fringe festival
  London, 2013
  

• Central Saint Martins Design explorations presentation on material matters, Sackler Centre, Victoria and Albert Museum, London May 2011
  

• GCSE and National Diploma ceramics
  Abingdon and Witney College
  Oxfordshire, 2007
  

• Adult ceramic evening classes Abingdon and Witney College Oxfordshire 2006-2007

Publications 

• The Workshop Guide to Ceramics, Duncan Hooson and Anthony Quinn, Thames and Hudson published 2012