Private View: Monday 26 September 05, 6.30pm - 9.30pm
Opens: Tuesday 27 September 05, Tuesday - Saturday 12 noon -10pm, Sunday 12 noon to 6pm

This is Kim Noble’s first solo show at Pepperton Gallery, Selhurst. The powerful body of work she displays is actually created by her many artist selves. Kim was diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) ten years ago. This was formerly called multiple personality and is a creative survival response to trauma. She started art therapy as a form of self-expression. Kim Noble was a consultant for the drama May 33rd written by Guy Hibbert and the BBC is interested in making a documentary.

Through this exhibition Kim shares a personal insight into many parallel and intimately bonded lives, that are little known to each other. Some of the artists only reveal their moods and responses to life experiences to Kim and to us through the artwork.

The artists are not all the same age. Some are young, some in their teens and others are adults. Collectively the works will take you through a journey of restricted palette, use of words and poems that are collaged into paint, lone figures that communicate stories without words, delightful naive style paintings of country scenes, alone and broken figures and sensitive pencil and line sketches. Whilst another creates landscapes that tempt us to see something familiar or real in them, though they remain deliberately abstract and others that reveal an unsettling past.

The same bold acrylic paint is shared by almost all the artists. While the exhibition celebrates the strength in the different expressive styles, it also acknowledges the sensitivity within the paintings and complex nature of the artist’s relationships.

This is a rare opportunity even for Kim, to be together with her selves - in conversation.

This exhibition is curated by Bula Chakravarty Agbo, Gallery Director and curator and
Cassie Herschel-Shorland, access and museum design, consultant and curator.