Laurence Kimmel (she/her) is an architect, an author, a curator and an artist living on Wangal Country/Concord, Australia. She is using oil painting to express architectural visions of Threshold spaces and liminal spaces. Her work on abstract landscapes, topologies and interconnections of spaces is enhanced by contrasted materialities, gradients and lines that are perceived as ‘cuts’ between spaces.

She recently exhibited at Rex-Livington gallery (Katoomba), and will soon exhibit at PROP gallery (Ashfield) and Branch3D gallery (Forest Lodge).

She published a book in 2021 entitled ‘Architecture of Threshold Spaces’ (Routledge, London). She is currently teaching Architecture and Design at UNSW and University of Western Sydney.

PERSONAL ART EXHIBITIONS

April 2025: Branch3D gallery, Bidgigal land/Forest Lodge.

April 2025: PROP Gallery, Wangal land/Ashfield.

February 2025 : Process(ed), Articulate gallery, Bidgigal land/Sydney.

December 2024: Livingston-Rex gallery, Kedumba/Katoomba.

September 2016:  Shifting, Drifting, Dribbling, Bidgigal land/Redfern.

May 2008 – Oct. 2008 : Artistic garden at the Festival international de jardins de Chaumont-sur-Loire, France, entitled Un champ partagé (in collaboration with Clara Sigalevitch, designer)

May 2008 : Installation for Festival Les Arts au vert in Alsace, France.

January 2008 : Installation Le labyrinthe during an invitation for an art workshop at the Ecole des Beaux-arts de Metz, France.

EXHIBITION CURATION

For over a decade overseas and in Sydney I have contributed in curatorial roles to professional design exhibitions. Leaving aside the staple of student work, these include since 2008:

April 2018 : Curator of the exhibition Cut Insight, Sheffer Gallery, Sydney, France, presenting works by Maxime Thieffine, Sarah Tritz, Eric Stephany, Claire-Jeanne Jezequel.

January 2017 : Curator of the exhibition Crossovers, Warehouse of art collector Tristan Guilloux, Lyon, France, presenting works by Michael Tawa, Vesna Trobec, and Katrina Simon.

September 2016 : Curator of the exhibition Shifting, Drifting, Dribbling, at the Sheffer Gallery, Sydney. Peer-reviewed (Project selected to be part of Sydney Design week, and supported by the Alliance Française de Sydney (Philippe Platel, cultural attaché of the French Embassy)

June - August 2015 : Curator of the art exhibition +/- 4 (Ungefähr Vier) in the gallery Lage Egal in Berlin, presenting works by Claire-Jeanne Jezequel, Lorraine Pellegrini and Geraldine Trubert.

6-29 mai 2010 : Curator of the exhibition La clarté du labyrinthe at the gallery Grands bains douches de la Plaine in Marseille, presenting works of artists Jeppe Hein, Claire-Jeanne Jézéquel, Bettina Samson, Pierre Labat, Rémy Rivoire, Stéphanie Nava, and Christine Sibran.