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Podcast Interview: Not Just a Couple of Artists...

10/29/2021

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...But also an artist couple!
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Kal Honey (my creative and life partner of many years) and I were interviewed for episode 9 of Art Conversations with Lisa Jayne Irvine.

Lisa was keen to know about our experiences as an artist couple, from how we met, to our collaborations as designers, to how we navigate being on the same career path as artists and art instructors.

It was so much fun to do (Kal and I love talking and working together), and Lisa (who is a fellow artist and a friend) is such a relaxed host.

​Please have a listen, and let us know what you think. The feedback we've had so far has been amazing, so there's a good chance you'll really enjoy it!

 The episode is available now, on Apple podcasts, Spotify and other podcast platforms. 
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My Online Studio Visit with Arts Etobicoke in August

9/14/2020

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This summer Arts Etobicoke was kind enough to ask me to hold an online studio visit with them via Instagram Live.

After months of lockdown it felt like another way to connect up with people and community online, much like my Virtual Studio Parties, and Kal Honey's Virtual Collage Jams (which I co-host).

Studio visits are fun, in fact I love seeing the insides of other artists' studios, what kind of space they have, how they work in them, how they organize them and so on. Not to mention what they are working on in there!

So you'll get to see some of all of those things in my video, which is on Arts Etobicoke's Instagram account.

​Here is a direct link: www.instagram.com/p/CDeniKDpkrE/

It's almost exactly an hour long. In it you'll get a peek at some experiments, a longtime hobby of mine, the view out my windows, what my painting table looks like and plenty more. Plus I answer some questions from attendees.

While not yet up on their website or YouTube channel, I'm sure it will be sometime this fall, and I will update the link in this post once that happens.

​I hope you enjoy it! Please let me know in the comments if you would like to see more.

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Virtual Studio Parties, Fall Term & the Coming Weeks

8/11/2020

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DATE CHANGE:
Virtual Studio Party will return two weeks later,
on Saturday, October 3 at 2pm.

My co-host Kal Honey and I are taking a break from some of our work responsibilities for several weeks, including the Virtual Studio Parties, free weekly creative events on my YouTube channel, that have seen us through the first few months of the pandemic.

It has become something that we, and numerous regular attendees, have come to treasure, for the creative time, the conversation, and for the community experience.

While we are on hiatus, there is a YouTube playlist of 24 videos available on my channel from past parties. They are there for you to enjoy whenever you feel the need for some creative time with friendly company, in the comfort of your home (or at this time of year, possibly your cottage).

Here is the link: https://bit.ly/31HtbOm

Meanwhile, in the coming weeks, you can expect more posts here in the blog, and updates in the Teaching+ menu above, in my Online Offerings.

I've got my Fall term planned out so I'm busy writing and making web pages for each of the courses I will be offering. Some of them are up already with everything but the materials lists, which I'll post in late August.

UPDATE: All of my Fall courses are up on the website now!
Click here to see what's available.

Finally, if you haven't made it to one of our Virtual Studio Parties yet, I hope you can make some space in your week to attend one live on a Saturday afternoon this Fall, or else by watching or listening to a replay. And if you know anyone else who might enjoy it, please share the link with them.

Creative time, creative community, a friendly artist making things – and it's free! What's not to love? I hope you'll join us!


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My Recent TV Appearance Is Now Online

8/10/2020

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I was delighted to be featured in episode 36 of Stella's Studio on Camoes TV, a show about art and artists, music and musicians. In it I talked about and showed some of my work, I also demonstrated a process I work with a lot.

To prepare for shooting the video, there was the "excitement" of getting my upstairs studio space looking presentable – not to mention my own self, lol – anyone else here find that isolation has made their appearance standards slip a little?

The studio clean-up was necessary because making a TV appearance during the COVID pandemic is a little different than my experiences in the past. The show's crew could not come to my house but neither could I go to their studio, so I had to shoot my own video segments, which the show then added to with still photos, video effects, and most importantly, editing.

My video skills are rudimentary (better than they were a year ago!) and I didn't have much time to shoot my segments, but despite that, and some resulting technical issues Stella and her team made it look much better than I feared, and I am quite pleased with the result.

Here is a link to the episode:
tinyurl.com/yb53th78

My portion of the program starts a at about the 4:45 mark and lasts for 7 or 8 minutes.

I hope you enjoy it!


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Screenshots courtesy Stella's Studio, a production of MDC Media Group, on Camoes TV (Rogers). Host Stella Jurgen is pictured with me (on the cup) in the final photo.
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Life in a Pandemic: Anxious Times

3/26/2020

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This is a time for hearts,
for big hearts, growing hearts,
open hearts.

Hearts too big to fit into this picture.


​Let’s take good care of everyone,
​including ourselves.
Life during a pandemic, even in countries like Canada which is still in the early stages, is full of anxiety. We're thrown off balance so we have trouble finding our footing. It's like the ground keeps moving.

It's not just that we are having to learn new practices to stay healthy, it's also the fact that the situation is constantly changing, close at hand, and around the world.


Some people have reached out to me, each experiencing some degree of distress. Some are experiencing a lot of fear – of the virus, for the future – and the 24/7 news cycle has become a vortex that infects us with fear.

There are others for whom the loss of normalcy, the rhythms and routines of their ordinary life, is the biggest issue. Losing so much so suddenly, they find themselves wading through grief for their life pre-pandemic. The suddenness can hit us hard.

I have been fortunate in finding meaning and purpose in the new things I have taken on, directly in response to the crisis, to help people get through the isolation and disquiet, and doing that has given me a little comfort. 
Before I tell you about that though, I want to share with you some thoughts I wrote to someone who needed help and emotional support through her distress at feeling unable to focus, unable to work, unable to settle. I feel it too. So many of us do, even if not all the time. So here is what I would like to say to you:

Nothing is normal right now. Nothing. So be gentle on yourself for not being able to work, and for feeling scattered. That is a natural response to feeling the anxiety of our crisis situation and even trauma and grief at the loss of normality.

We humans adapt to amazing things but to stay healthy in the full sense it is important to do gentle things that nourish, calm and ground you. That will ease the transition to the new normal, and you will feel better for it. 

Activities that get you focused on your body are especially beneficial: movement of any kind and focusing on your senses instead of your thoughts whenever you can, or for part of each day.

Do something with your hands, go outside for a walk if you are healthy (and keep your distance from others). Above all, have patience with yourself and those around you... even for the times that you – or they – lose patience :-)

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On March 20, I started holding Virtual Studio Parties online, via YouTube livestream so that anyone with high-speed internet, no matter how unconfident with their computer, could take part.

It’s a no-cost creative gathering for anyone who’s missing the experience of community, is feeling isolated or anxious, or wants to have some gentle fun in the real-time, virtual, company of others.

People have said it's really helped them and it's something they look forward to now.

If this sounds like it might help you, or just be fun, visit my Virtual Studio Parties page.

​Do you have a suggestion for self-care during stressful times? Please share in the comments.
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Happy Holidays!

12/23/2019

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Wishing you and your family
a very happy holiday! 


​And as we close out this decade,
​along with my fond hopes for a better decade ahead for the world, I wish you and yours all the best for the new year.
Thanks so much for being part of my community this year. Buoyed by that support, including my Heartspace sponsors, I was able to take on more, make more, and make more ambitious work – including trying many new media, processes and formats – in the past 18 months than in any previous.

That work enabled me to create and share experiences like my 2018 In Situ Festival room installation; my solo show 'A Full Heart' at the Cedar Ridge Studio gallery, my biggest ever, spanning three rooms in a historic house; Wonderfest in Port Credit a performing arts event where my large paintings set and dressed the stage for singers, musicians and spoken word poetry. 

The culminating event was Heartspace at The Red Head Gallery, my debut solo show there, which included some of my previously shown heart-based work, alongside 47 new artworks in various sizes, mediums and formats.

It is only one month since Heartspace closed. The response, enthusiasm and attendance were amazing, thanks to my community!

I hope you were among those able to attend. If you were, thank you! If you checked it out online, thank you!

This year's holiday card was designed by my partner in life and creativity, Kal Honey, whose most recent show, Signs of Subversion, featured artworks based on (and subverting) the bylaw and road signs of our everyday life.
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Final Week to See Heartspace & Thank You to My Sponsors

11/17/2019

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Heartspace, my debut solo exhibition at The Red Head Gallery, is in its final week this Weds–Sat noon–5pm. I will be there for the final Saturday (Nov 23) all afternoon, or as close to it as I can manage!

After that the work comes down except for some of the small works which will be part of the group show that follows right after mine, #foxypopup.

Heartfelt thanks to my amazing sponsors!

I have thanked my sponsors in print at the show itself, but it's about time I thanked them here on my website.

They took some pressure off, lightening the load on my mind as I headed into, and worked away in, my studio, and they also made some things possible, thereby helping to make this show as interesting and diverse as my ideas called for.

Here are my generous sponsors: 
  • Miriam Snell
  • Josef (Joe) Rich
  • Abigail Johnson
  • Joanna Czub
  • The Conspiracy to Promote Artists
  • Ruth Austin
  • Nancy Moniz
  • Lindsay Isaac
  • Anne Cook
I also owe a very special thanks to Kal Honey, who helps me in every way imaginable. Thanks also to Tim Marshall who along with Kal installed the show so I feel happy every time I look at it!

Installation views of Kim-Lee Kho: Heartspace at The Red Head Gallery through Nov 23, 2019.

My Heartspace solo exhibition is in its final week, continuing through Saturday, November 23 at The Red Head Gallery.

​I'll be there in person on the final day, come and say hi! Open noon–5pm.
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A Packed House for My Heartspace Artist Talk & Opening Reception

11/3/2019

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Kim-Lee Kho giving her 'Heartspace' artist talk to a packed house at The Red Head Gallery in Toronto. All photos by Kal Honey, © Kim-Lee Kho
What a day! I'm feeling so full of gratitude for the many people who came out for the artist talk and opening reception for my 'Heartspace' solo exhibition at The Red Head Gallery in Toronto.

It was so packed that on more than one occasion I had to act like a bus driver and urge everyone to move further inside to make room for the new arrivals!

Wonderful to connect and re-connect with many familiar faces, colleagues, friends, students, sponsors, and even family!

I gave the group a guided tour through the artworks – so many of which merit a little background or additional explanation to enrich the experience rather than replace the personal encounter – covering conceptual, material and 
technical aspects as well as recounting an occasional anecdote. There were also some excellent questions from visitors rounding out the experience.

While I rest and recover I will leave you with some photographs from the afternoon, and later on I will post photos of the installation without the crowds.


If you were unable to attend the opening reception, I will be back at the gallery on Saturday, November 9, from noon to 5pm. I'd love to share the show with you then, but of course visit whenever you can! And please don't forget to sign the guest book :-)

​Heartspace runs through November 23, 2019.
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Seeking Sponsors for Heartspace Show, Starting at Just $10

10/1/2019

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Hearts Are Messy by Kim-Lee Kho. Inks and acrylic paint pen on Chinese mulberry paper; approx. 30" x 18"; 2018. Can be an image for a sponsorship reward or the original is also available for purchase. Contact me for pricing.
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Detail view of Hearts Are Messy. I actually like closeups on this piece a lot, so much that I may produce some prints of those. Let me know if you're interested.
Would you consider becoming a sponsor of Heartspace to help me make the best show I can?

Your interest in and support of my work here (and in-person) means so much, thank you! It spurs me to push myself to do the best work I can.

You may have noticed that I have an upcoming solo exhibition, my first as a member of The Red Head Gallery. Heartspace runs Oct 30–Nov 23, 2019; reception Saturday Nov 2 from 1–4pm; 401 Richmond St West in Toronto.

This is the first time I’ve asked this, but if you know me and my work then you know I do my utmost to create artworks, installations and experiences for artlovers like you to enjoy, and I hope find thoughtful, moving, sometimes challenging, always 🤞 interesting.

My last couple of shows left me gutted financially. So I am asking for your support, by considering sponsoring Heartspace, to help me complete the new pieces and formats. 

Sponsorship is easy and starts at just $10 
Either an email transfer (via online banking) or use the PayPal button below, no account required. 
EMAIL Transfer (see below)
No link, just use your online banking and kimandkal@me.com as my address
PayPal (no acct needed)
This button above will take you directly to PayPal.

Please also send me your email address so I can confirm your name and we can communicate regarding your reward!
Reward Levels:
I will thank all sponsors – at any level – on signage at the exhibition as well as on my website. Some levels include gifts (see below). Please let me know if you prefer anonymity.

💲10 Please accept my sincere thanks 
🙏
💲25 My thanks plus I will mail you a set of 3 cards with envelopes, featuring heart-based images 💌
💲60. My thanks plus I will mail you a special edition art print on 5” x 7” hot press paper, signed by me ✍️
💲100 My thanks plus a special edition art print on letter-size (8.5” x 11”) hot press paper OR a similar hand pulled film-based transfer print (featuring irregularities from the process), signed by me, with a handwritten thank you note 📝
💲250 or more Larger print? Small original drawing? Suggest something and we can discuss! 🎁 

Fulfillment would begin at the end of the exhibition.

I will be making regular sponsorship posts on social media over the coming weeks, featuring different art images, and repeating this info there so no one has to go hunting for it.
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You can find me on:

Instagram and
Facebook

Thanks SO MUCH much for reading and considering! 

Heartfelt thanks to my new sponsors!
It means the world to me and to my Heartspace show! If you are able to attend the reception be sure to collect your special sponsor-hug!
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'Hearts in Place': My Installation at In Situ 2018, Part One

11/30/2018

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'Hearts in Place', my room installation at the 2018 In Situ Festival. Most of the room is shown, but you can't see what's at the back centre, behind the "veined" panels, nor what's behind me as I photographed this. All artwork: Kim-Lee Kho, this photo: Kim-Lee Kho
Part two of this blog series is up!
​To go directly to it, click here.


The 2018 In Situ multi-arts festival took place November 8–10 at the Small Arms Inspection Building (a former WWII munitions factory now partially refurbished as a creative hub) in Mississauga, Ontario.

'Hearts in Place' was a whole-room installation comprised of: ten 7-foot high scrolls, eight of which were transfer-printed (a hand-pulled process), two were hand-painted; two paper-and-fibre "veined" panels (centre); two veiling textile panels; one built-onsite sculpture/assemblage which you can see a sliver of light from at the centre of this photo; and the wall behind me as I photographed the room panorama was a mural drawing which I drew a portion of as a live performance each of the three evenings of the festival.

Like the first In Situ festival in 2016, this was an extraordinary experience and a creative high, but with the benefit of central heating and running water!

I am still exhausted from the experience of preparing all of this new work, performing and then taking it all down just days later. As a result I will keep this entry shorter than I might have, but will share with you some photographs. Thanks go to the numerous – generous – photographers and friends, (all credited individually), who made this possible, documenting when I could not.

​Many thanks to the many people who came out to experience the festival and visited my room! If you were there, please let me know what you thought in the comments below.
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Photo: Kim-Lee Kho 2018
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Photo: Jennifer Vong
Kim-Lee Kho stands in front of a 8-foot whimsical heart sculpture made of rope lights, curving silver tubes, metal mesh and tree branches, and next to a very large close up of a face, backlit.
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Hearts in Place installation artwork by Kim-Lee Kho, 2018. Photo (left): Sandra Robson, photo (above): Kal Honey.
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Photo: Gabriella Bank from Sanborg Productions Inc
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Photo: Elaine Whittaker
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Photo: David Ahn
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