Emerging Australian Sculptor
Kim Connor’s steel sculptural work—shaped by a cross-disciplinary creative practice spanning architecture, interiors, and design—explores how strength can express delicacy, tension can give rise to grace, and structure can embody emotion.
As a material, steel fascinates me — a paradox of brute strength and delicate grace. In a public art setting, its robustness encourages touch and interaction; the public can not only see the work, but step into it, rest upon it, and make it part of their own experience. I love the idea that, in those moments, something magical happens — the work becomes part of someone else's story.
—Kim Connor
Kim Connor is an emerging sculptor based in Brisbane, Queensland.
Prior to her sculptural practice, Kim worked across architecture, interiors, and design in both Australia and the United States.
Her multidisciplinary project BARRA—a 1970s beach shack renovation on the Sunshine Coast (see photos below)—was featured in the Home Beautiful Magazine and awarded the Gold Medal from Stayz for Best Holiday Home in Australia.
After graduating from university in Brisbane, Kim lived and worked in Boston, USA, where she co-founded a design startup. The company was featured in the Wall Street Journal, Real Simple Magazine, and O, The Oprah Magazine.
She holds a Bachelor of Built Environment (Architecture) from the Queensland University of Technology and a Bachelor of Design from the University of Queensland.
Though her studio pieces are modest in scale, she is deeply interested in the broader spatial impact of sculpture, particularly its role in public art. Like architecture, public art can assert presence—quietly or unequivocally—reshaping how we move through and feel within a space. Her work explores this potential: the capacity of large-scale public art to spark curiosity, disrupt the habitual, and invite moments of unexpected delight.
