Welcome back to Velvet Theory. What follows is a conversation and sounds w/ Kimberley Burrows. Here is an excerpt from her Royal College of Art graduation page:

'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.'

I sat down with Kim towards the end of last year - after many delays and technical issues, please enjoy our conversation and the sounds it summoned.

Headphones highly recommended.

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Kimberley Burrows: @kimberleyburrowsart

Host: @studiodouglass

Sound Mixer: Isabel Derr