In 2018 Gundle turned her creative lens back to London. Prior to lockdown, Gundle sketched daily on the London underground, sketching the people who make up the warp and weft of our society. She works from these sketches to inform her figurative work. During 2020 she spent this stretch of time sculpting ceramic portraits and making hand built ceramic 'Companion Cups', informed by her sketches on the London underground.

Gundle feels that in times of uncertainty, it is hard to hold onto joy, to believe in the strength of the society that we live in, and harder still to imagine what tomorrow might bring. In order to process uncertainty, Gundle started a visual diary, documenting Life in the Time of Covid -19, an aim to navigate the present and recall the daily impact that this virus has had on our lives. On 20/03/2020 Gundle posted her first visual thought to her instagram feed.  These images connected her to the outside world in a time of isolation. 

The visual diary continues. She published a limited edition book entitled Navigating the Maze which documents a year of her daily visual thoughts from 20/02/2020-20/03/2021. It is a time capsule in which everyone in the world experienced the effects of Covid. Each book is signed and numbered by the artist and accompanied by a unique hand made ceramic talisman, a companion to the book and to the owner.

How is the Weather in Your Head? is the title of an ongoing series of hand built ceramic sculptures informed by her sketches on the London underground. How is the Weather in Your Head series is at once deeply personal and collective. It is an ongoing series of sculptures about paying attention to our exterior and interior worlds, about presence, participation, and connection. It is a series of ceramic portraits on the rear of each sculpture is a glimpse into the internal worlds / visual thoughts extracted from Kimberleys’ visual diary. This series is for anyone who has ever wondered about the interior life of a stranger they glimpsed on the tube or the bus, traversing this busy city - London.

Education
MA Fine Art, Slade School of Art, London, England, 1988 – 1990
Post Graduate Advanced Painting, Michaelis Fine Art, Cape Town, South Africa, 1988
BA Fine Art, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town, South Africa, 1983 – 1986

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 How is the Weather in Your Head? 67 York street Gallery, London, England
2018 Personal Encounters, A&D Gallery, London, England
2017 Heads of Society, German Ambassador’s Residence, London, England
2016 Solo, Candice Berman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2009 A Slice of London, Art First, London, England
2003 The Shoe Fits, Portraits below the Knee, Art First, London, England
1999 Flower Sellers of London, Art First, London, England
1996 Café Observations, Art First, London, England
1995 Focal Subjects, The Museum Annex, Hong Kong, China
1994 Portraits, Oxford Gallery, Oxford, England
1991 Dreams in the Sand, Peacock Gallery, Belfast, Ireland

Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Collect International Art Fair with Long & Ryle gallery Sommerset House, London
2022 Discerning Eye, The Mall Galleries, London, England
2021 Discerning Eye, The Mall Galleries, London, England
2021 Zuleika Gallery, London
2020 Discerning Eye, The Mall Galleries, London, England
2019 Collect International Art Fair for Modern Craft and Design, Saatchi Gallery, London
2017 Personal Structures Open Borders, Venice Biennale, Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy
2016 The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, England
2016 SCOPE International Art Show, Candice Berman Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
2016 That Art Fair, Candice Berman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2016 Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Candice Berman Gallery, Oudtshoorn, South Africa
2015 Crossing Boarders, Venice Biennale, Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy
2015 Portraits, Candice Berman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2013 Culture Mind Becoming, Venice Biennale, Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy
2007 – 2008 The Postcard Project, Art First, London, England
1992 – 2004 London Contemporary Art Fair, Art First, London, England
2003 Discerning Eye, The Mall Galleries, London, England
2002 Shoe, City Gallery Leicester, England (National Touring Exhibition)
2001 Starting a Collection, Art First, London, England
2000 10’ x 10’, Art First, London, England
2000 Time Pieces, The Gallery, London, England
1999 EXPO, New York NY
1997 Passion and Sensuality, The Gallery, London, England
1996 Art Miami 96’, Miami FL
1995 Londoners, Art First, London, England
1993 Reading Contemporary Art, Reading, England
1993 Rexel-Derwent Drawing Competition
1992 International Arts Festival, Sauve, France
1992 Artist in Focus, Midlands Contemporary Art, Birmingham, England
1991 The Gordon Gallery, Londonderry, Northern Ireland
1991 A British Exchange, Karen Mckerron Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1990 Slade Postgraduate Exhibition, Slade Pearson Gallery, London, England
1988 Karen McKerron Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

Selected Collections
St Peters College, Oxford, England
Pentland Group, London, England
South African Breweries, South Africa
Unilever plc. London, England
St. George’s Hospital, London, England

Invited lectures
2017 “Preserving Maasai communities” The German Embassy, London
2014 “Drawing the Maasai” Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge
2011 Sky news discussing death of Lucien Freud
1988-2007 “Contemporary South African Art” touring national lecture series

Workshop facilitation and teaching
2023   Artist in Residence ECDC ( October - Dec )
2020 Open House, London
2017 RNIB - volunteer facilitator with Local sense, London
2000-2008 School holiday art classes from my studio, London
1992 Artist in Residence, Sauve, France
1990 -1994 School holiday art workshop sat Dragon School Oxford
1990-1996 Drawing and painting tutor Sunningwell School of Art, Oxfordshire