b. (1987), Montreal, Quebec
Based in Toronto
Contact: kermode.graphics@gmail.com

Kimberley Kermode is a Montreal born artist now residing in Melbourne, Australia. She paints with acrylic and mixed media at her shared studio, The Arts Hole.

Her art is her discovery of her complex Caribbean heritage on her mother’s side. From a young age, she was fascinated by the confidence portrayed from ‘people of colour’ (POC) and while she was exploring what it meant to be part Martiniquan, she was also navigating her own confidence and complexities with colourism. Having only visited Martinique once, her memory of the landscape and the people are blurred with what she sees in the media and other people with mixed Western Caribbean heritage. 

However layered being mixed of colour is, we all find ourselves looking at both ancestors and others who have similar appearances and cultural complexities for answers. Kmode’s body of work is a journey of rediscovering herself - through her mothers heritage - within her identity as a human and person of colour.