Teaching NFCE painting and drawing courses. I developed and taught courses for adults wishing to develop their creative skills and techniques, and those wishing to build a portfolio to apply for foundation courses. This course focuses on traditional painting and drawing techniques, enhancing students knowledge and abilities with colour theory, observational drawing, perspective and the effective use of mediums and tools.

I lead adult education classes in painting and drawing. I designed and lead a series of courses in abstract art for adult learners at different stages in their artistic journeys."Ways into abstraction", "Further journeys in abstract art" and "Abstract art unleashed".My classes were taught in-person, whilst I lived in York, and are currently taught online. Students are encouraged to develop their own visual language through experimentations with drawing and painting using a range of wet and dry media, as well as mixed media techniques. The courses cover observational drawing, colour theory and drawing techniques, painting techniques in acrylic and mixed media approaches, as well moving towards more intuitive and expressive ways of making art, including abstracting from visual and sensory stimuli, and thinking through the process of making. Each session is supported by looking at the work of both modern and contemporary abstract artists, and I suggest further materials for students to revisit in their own time as well as recommending contemporary exhibitions to visit.I monitor student’s progress by setting homework tasks and I provide tailored individual feedback that is age and experience appropriate.

I am an advisory board member for Livingmaps Network, which involves planning directions for the network, as well as organising and hosting events and seminars, writing articles for the journal Livingmaps Review, and collaborating on various projects by leading creative mapping workshops in various contexts.Projects:- Young Citizens Atlas - Working with various local community groups in East London, (2022- 2024). - Growing up in Coastal Towns. A collaboration with University College London,(2023-2025).- Creative mapping workshops for artists and other network members (2017, 2018, 2019)- Livingmaps Festival - Co-organising a hybrid event with talks and workshops (2021/2022)- Dreaming of a Post-Covid World - Co-curating an exhibition and publication of maps and drawings via an open call.

Mapping, drawing and performance workshops - exploring drawing as a tool to map and tell stories about places.• University College London, ‘Growing up in Coastal Towns’ project (2023-2025)• Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference, (2024)• Livingmaps Network ‘Young Citizens Atlas’ Project. (2022- 2024). • University of British Columbia Okanagan (Online sessions), ‘Sensing a changed climate in early childhood’. 2-part drawing and mapping workshop for students at the FEEled Lab (Canada, 2024)• University of Plymouth, ‘Sensing Spaces: Marks and Mapping’ workshop for MA Architecture students + PhD Research Lab (2023)• Science Gallery Festival of Social Sciences. Drawing how it feels to be in a space. (London, 7th November 2023)• Kings College London, Participatory mapping workshop for MA Digital Humanities Summer School (5th June 2023)• Southlands Studios, ‘Embodied Drawing’ workshop (York, UK 2022)• Royal Docks Development Team, (London) Community consultation workshops for the Royal Docks Development Team(2020)• Royal Docks Communities Voice, (London 2019)• Camberwell Arts/ SE5 Forum Stakeholder workshop to gather insights into local people’s perceptions of their neighbourhood, for Camberwell Identity Project’. (June 2019)• Camberwell Arts Festival, ‘Unmapping’ workshop (London 2018)• Living Maps Network, London, ‘Unmapping’ workshop (London 2017) • Het Buurtatelier (Amsterdam, NL) Creative mapping workshop with kids to create neighbourhood maps from recycled materials, culminating in an exhibition at Amsterdam Public Library (2016)• Open Oost, Sensory drawing workshop at open studios event, (Amsterdam 2016)• Jamestown College, Performance art workshop (New York, USA 2014)• Performance Art in Norrbotten, Performance art workshop (Luleå, SE, 2012)• University of Leeds – Performance Art workshop for BA Fine Art students (Leeds 2012)

I work across drawing, painting, sound, performance and video, both as solo practice and in participatory projects that are embedded within community settings. My artistic practice stems from my background in participatory performance art, and my fascination with maps. Broadly speaking, my works are abstract representations and re-imaginings of spaces and places, framed by a material and conceptual investigation into layers and layering. Central to my work is the notion of a body in a space. I’m interested in the process of transforming the physical, material, sonic and felt properties of specific locations – as well as the stories and memories they embody – into artworks.I create paintings and drawings that are made via a process of layering, overlapping, re-working and erasing, as if simultaneously constructing and excavating an imaginary landscape. Each new layer is a response to the last and the work emerges as a trace of my dialogue with the materials. I work with field recordings to create site-specific music, audio installations and live performances. I create video works that document notions of home and other peoples experience of places, and I use drawing in participatory performances and workshops as a tool to map embodied experiences.Please visit my website for full portfolio and CVwww.kimbalbumstead.com

Artistic partner for the project together with Dr Sana Murrani (PI). I co-led and co-designed a series of workshops, and have worked with a group of 15 Yazidi participants to build an online atlas (website), based on their stories of home, displacement, migration and possible return.During this project, I co-led a series of 7 online workshops online at Sinjar Academy (Iraq) which introduced key themes and methods for the project, including deep Listening and Interviewing, drawing and cognitive mapmaking, GIS storytelling, photographing and filmmaking, sound recording, and multimedia storytelling.I have also contributed to a policy framework paper and am in the process of co-writing a paper for peer reviewed journals. I designed a printed booklet with a toolkit based on the project methods, as well as co-presented the project at an LSE policy makers symposium (2024), and Livingmaps Network ‘More than human mapping’ symposium (2024).