Biography

Kimberley Gundle was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1963. After completing her BA and Postgraduate Studies at the Michaelis School of Art, University of Cape Town (1983-88), she came to London in 1988 to study at the Slade and has lived and worked here ever since.

Gundle has exhibited regularly with Art First in London, including three solo shows in 1996, 1999 and 2003. She has also had solo shows in Belfast (1991), at the Oxford Gallery, Oxford (1994) and at the Museum Annex, Hong Kong. She has participated in various group exhibitions in the UK, South Africa and Hong Kong from 1988 to the present, including the 2002 national touring exhibition, SHOE, curated by Kathy Fawcett at the City Art Gallery, Leicester.

Her work can be found in various collections in the UK and South Africa, and individuals and families have commissioned her to paint them in their favourite shoes, knee downwards.