On Foot

Kirsten Sims Solo Exhibition

131 A Gallery, is pleased to present On Foot a solo exhibition of paintings by Kirsten Sims

The online catalogue will be live from the 14th of May 2025 until the 9th of June and the works will be up on the walls in the main gallery from the 17th of May until the 9th of June 2025

NB! Please join us at the gallery for the opening of the exhibition at 11am to 1pm on Saturday the 17th of May. You don’t want to miss this one. Hope to see you there.

If you see an artwork that you are interested in please click on the button below the work on the online show to purchase it and we’ll send through the invoice asap to secure the work for you. All works are sold on a first come first serve basis. The artworks are all framed unless otherwise specified.

“This body of work is shaped by movement, by the simple, everyday act of walking. Each painting is drawn from images I have captured on foot, whether during my daily forest walks or my recent travels. Though the locations are varied and seemingly unconnected, they are all tied together by the rhythm of walking, by the way I experience the world on foot.

Walking slows the eye. It invites observation, allowing moments to be collected - fragments of a street corner, shifting light through trees, fleeting figures in motion. Shapes, postures, shadows, the way light distorts or exaggerates form, that’s what pulls me in. My paintings are not strict documentations of these places, but rather a reflection of how they felt to move through. Some details are retained, others dissolve, and in their place, memory and imagination take over - painting becomes a process of reduction and invention.

By bringing these different places together in paint, On Foot explores the connection between movement and perception, between place and presence. It is a map of experiences, not through geography, but through the act of looking, walking, and remembering”. - Kirsten Sims