Kim Gurney

Kim Gurney is a writer, researcher, and visual artist.

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 in different genres and international platforms, with over two decades of writing and editing experience.

She is the author of four non-fiction books emblematic of her research interests, linking contemporary art to public space and city futures: ‘The Art of Public Space: Curating and Re-imagining the Ephemeral City’ (Palgrave Macmillan, London); ‘August House is Dead, Long Live August House! The Story of a Johannesburg Atelier’ (Fourthwall, Johannesburg); ‘Panya Routes: Independent art spaces in Africa’ (Motto, Berlin & Lausanne); and, most recently, ‘Flipside: The Inadvertent Archive’ (iwalewabooks, Johannesburg/ Lagos/ Frankfurt).

Kim’s artistic practice engages disappearances of different kinds and makes restorative gestures - via studio work, public space activations, and curatorial collaborations.

She works in an interdisciplinary way, based between Cape Town & London.