Kim Lehman
works in photo-montage, video and installation. He has been a finalist in the Bay
of Fires Art Prize,
the Sunshine Coast Art Prize – New Media Award, TIDAL: Devonport City Art
Prize, and was the first
video artist to be selected as a finalist in the Glover Prize (2015).
The common thread that runs through all Kim’s work is an interest in how we
interpret present stimuli through the filter of past experience to form our
perception of the world around us. Within this general context he is influenced
by literary form, e.g., the discontinuous narrative, and literary devices,
e.g., Proustian memory. His photo-montage works often take the form of
condensed narratives where idea and image provide an intense insight into memory—frequently
these works ‘data mine’, and then reconstruct, photographic memories.
Similarly, Kim’s video works can explore places familiar to us, either
personally or by extension, sometimes adding a touch of the surreal,
with a view to encouraging the audience to look more closely at how we all
perceive our lived experiences and provide a moment of contemplation.