Kim Sutherland is a London based maker who combines metalwork with material research, creating finely crafted pieces inspired by sacred and ritual objects. Her work inhabits the territory between drawing and object making through an ongoing investigation of the ancient process of etching – the bite of line into metal – which allows her to create the symbolically ‘charged’ surfaces that sit at the heart of her practice.

Kim’s work explores the notion of ‘tenemos’, or sacred and circumscribed space. The point of departure for the work is to be found in artefacts and imagery that attempt to understand and honour an ‘other’ territory. It references the poetic expression of mathematical and scientific treatise as well as sacred geometry, alchemic diagrams, mandalas and temple architecture. Zen Buddhism and Chinese Tao philosophy are influential in her working practice.