Exhibition Tour with Mason Kimber & Sarah Rose

Join artist Mason Kimber and Sarah Rose, Associate Curator at Artspace, for a guided walkthrough of Kimber’s exhibition ‘A Caressing Gaze’.

This new exhibition spans painting, sculptural relief, and site-specific installation, drawing from Kimber’s long-standing interest in the social dimensions of architecture. Working with casts and impressions of surfaces from the built environment, Kimber reconfigures fragments into new assemblages that activate relations to place, history, and memory.

Together, Kimber and Rose will discuss the iterative processes of moulding, casting, and framing that underpin Kimber’s work, as well as the memories and lived experiences that continue to shape his practice.

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Mason Kimber is a Sydney-based artist who creates textural paintings that extend into sculptural relief and site-specific installations, exploring memory, architecture, and surface. Influenced by childhood experiences in his father’s nightclubs, Kimber’s work considers interiors as living spaces that register social and spatial histories. He holds an MFA from the National Art School and is completing a PhD at UNSW Art & Design on painting as critical spatial practice. He lectures in painting at NAS and UNSW, and is represented by Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne.

Sarah Rose is a Gadigal/Sydney-based curator and arts worker, and is currently the Associate Curator and Executive Assistant, Artspace, Sydney. In recent years, Sarah has collaborated closely with artists to produce over 20 group and solo exhibitions. Rose has previously held positions at the National Association for the Visual Arts, Create NSW, and is currently Coordinator of Contemporary Arts Organisations Australia. She is Co-founder and Project Coordinator for ‘More Than Reproduction’, an artist-run printmaking initiative for female-identifying and gender diverse printmakers in Australia.  

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Presented in conjunction with the exhibition ‘Mason Kimber: A Caressing Gaze’ at UNSW Galleries, 29 August – 16 November 2025.