Mark Kimber b. 1954

  • Artist (Photographer)
Australian photographer based in South Australia. Kimber was a finalist in both the 2006 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award and the 2006 City of Perth Photo Media Award.
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Mark Kimber was born in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1954. He began his formal education in the visual arts at the South Australian School of Art, University of South Australia, in 1981 and graduated with a Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts, majoring in photography. Kimber also undertook a Masters of Art in 2000 at the Chelsea School of Art at the London Institute.

Kimber first began exhibiting publicly in the 'Colour’ group exhibition in 1986 at the Australian Centre for Photography in New South Wales and had his first solo exhibition, entitled 'The Inventory of Memory’ in 1989 at the Christine Abrahams Gallery in Melbourne, Victoria. From that time on Kimber remained active in many group and solo exhibitions around Australia and also participated in several photography projects, committees and panels in his career. Internationally his work has been shown in Spain, the United Kingdom and South Africa.

Kimber was listed as a finalist in both the 2006 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award and the 2006 City of Perth Photo Media Award, and his exhibition 'By the dawn’s early light’ received T he Advertiser newspaper’s OSCART award for the Best Photographic Exhibition of 2005.

At the time of writing, Kimber was the Studio Head of Photography and New Media at the South Australian School of Art at the University of South Australia. His teaching interests are in the areas of the history and cultural importance of photography, 19th century photographic processes, digital manipulation by the computer and plastic camera photography.

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Date written:
2009
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2011

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