Kim Winter uses traditional basketry techniques in innovative ways to create contemporary sculptural pieces. Sometimes these may be functional vessels, but mostly they are artworks – she loves the challenge of pushing the boundaries to make original basketry forms.
Kim lives in Brixton, south London, which offers plenty of opportunities to observe the interaction between urban life and nature, providing inspiration and sometimes materials for her practice. Nature is often ephemeral, but she relishes trying to capture its essence in more permanent form in her work.
With a strong focus on form and materiality, she loves to echo structures and processes from nature in her art, from the mathematical basis for a spiral shell to the chemistry of leaf prints on pavements. She often incorporates found objects and foraged fibres in her pieces: making cord from dead daffodil stems, coiling around discarded fruit packaging, or weaving bindweed into vessels.