Rate My Professor Kim Donaldson

Donaldson's research focuses on concepts such as the artist as curator, spatial and experiential dimensions of exhibitions and events, and embodied new materialist art practices. In 2022, she co-established Cūrā8 with Dr. Sean Lowry to curate exhibitions, texts, artworks, performances, and events at project8 gallery through 2025, supported by a Collaborative Research Agreement with the University of Melbourne. This work emphasizes dynamic relationships between artists, curators, and theorists, promoting aesthetic languages, material innovation, and experiential knowledge. A significant ongoing collaboration is the Feminist Colour-IN project, begun in 2016 with Dr. Katve-Kaisa Kontturi, featuring performative events centered on feminist activism through colouring and drawing, presented in Warsaw, Byron Bay, Jyväskylä (Finland), Rome, and Melbourne. Scholarly contributions include the co-authored article 'Feminist Colour-IN: An Aesthetic Activism of Connection and Collectivity' (2019) and 'Technotopiary: another formation of the curatorial' (2015), alongside conference presentations such as 'Re-Framing Artist as Curator' at AAANZ and works like 'Feminist Colour-IN (Finland edition)', 'Chronomingle', and 'Crepusculum'. Her curatorial and research activities have fostered international partnerships and advanced contemporary art discourse.