Kim Gurney (PhD) is a writer, researcher, and visual artist. She works in an interdisciplinary way, based in Cape Town, South Africa.
Kim’s writing crosses genre but favours long-form creative non-fiction, inflected by a former life as a journalist, and often seeks out backstage narratives. She is widely published on international platforms, with over two decades of writing and editing experience.
Kim is the author of four non-fiction books emblematic of her research interests, linking contemporary art to public space and city futures: ‘Flipside: The Inadvertent Archive, iwalewabooks: Johannesburg & Lagos; Panya Routes: Independent art spaces in Africa, Motto: Berlin & Lausanne; August House is Dead, Long Live August House! The Story of a Johannesburg Atelier, Fourthwall: Johannesburg; & [The Art of Public Space: Curating and Re-imagining the Ephemeral City (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137436900), Palgrave Macmillan: London.
Kim’s artistic practice engages disappearances of different kinds and makes restorative gestures - via studio work, public space activations, and curatorial collaborations.
