Kimberley Burrows

Kimberley Burrows is a blind, abstract expressionist artist from Salford, Greater Manchester whose artistic voice has evolved with her sight loss. Her practice marries painting, printmaking and poetry, utilised as a therapy tool to process and explore themes of complex trauma, mental health, disabled identity and grief. Burrows paints sensitively, intuitively and from a position of vulnerability through a blind lens. The creative process is a method of direct communication between her fractured heart and mind. Painting is a powerful cognitive experience capitalising on all of her other senses beyond sight. Burrows uses all parts of her body as a vessel in an immersive and visceral performance, to create evocative visual language and to interrogate muscle memory, spatial awareness and surface quality.