Kim Mac

Painting of a pale, crying figure between two blue windows and flowering branches.
The View Is Beautiful, 2023. Acrylic on canvas, 75 × 120 cm (29 1/2 × 47 1/4 in).

Alchemical anarchism. Mind the gap.

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Manifesto

Kim Mac doesn't paint pictures. She files evidence.

Saints with dotted faces, a wolf in the wrong century, a golden vessel humming in the middle of the room: icons for a religion nobody has invented yet, and nobody will fund.

Symbols are tools here, not decoration. Lift them, break them, put them back wrong. Marx on kraft paper hangs next to a moon with a grudge. Permission from the canon, the algorithm and the white cube was never requested.

Look slowly. Take what you understand. Argue with the rest.

Read the small print

Selected works

  1. Painting of a woman seen from behind holding tarot cards before a golden tower on a chequered floor.
    Insemination: Initiation Through Fire, 2025. Acrylic on canvas, 60 × 100 cm (23 5/8 × 39 3/8 in).

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  2. Ink drawing of two nude women on twin towers, arms raised to a sun, a moon and a flying saucer.
    The Temple of Truth, 2025. Ink on paper, A2 (16 1/2 × 23 3/8 in).

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  3. Painting of a frontal female portrait in turquoise and pink, built from rows of dots.
    LSD + Mother Mind, 2024. Acrylic on canvas, 75 × 100 cm (29 1/2 × 39 3/8 in).

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  4. Ink drawing of robed and naked figures around a burning vessel, framed by Latin inscriptions.
    Eleusis, 2024. Ink on paper, A4 (8 1/4 × 11 3/4 in).

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  5. Painting of a woman in a striped top at a cluttered table, a pale nude figure in the doorway.
    Self Portrait, Soho, 2025. Acrylic on canvas, 85 × 125 cm (33 1/2 × 49 1/4 in).

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  6. Ink and watercolour drawing of a circular room of doors and coloured panels, with two women, a rose and a skull.
    Keys to the Kingdom, 2024. Ink and watercolour on paper, A3 (11 3/4 × 16 1/2 in).

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  7. Painting of a skeleton and a man playing chess at a table in an orange desert.
    Skull Face and Gordito, 2025. Acrylic on canvas, 85 × 125 cm (33 1/2 × 49 1/4 in).

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  8. Ink drawing of a falling woman among planets, a skeleton and a robed figure, with handwritten notes.
    Meditations on Martyrdom, 2025. Ink on paper, A4 (8 1/4 × 11 3/4 in).

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  9. Tall painting of a standing nude woman on red, with banners reading 'Authenticity is rebellion'.
    The Rebellion, 2023. Acrylic on canvas, 50 × 142 cm (19 5/8 × 55 7/8 in).

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  10. Painting of a haloed nude woman seated beside a table with a bottle and candle, a snake on the stand.
    Absinth, 2023. Acrylic on canvas, 80 × 135 cm (31 1/2 × 53 1/8 in).

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  11. Ink drawing of two women's faces, one a sun, among swirling hair and handwritten text.
    Meditations on Her, 2025. Ink on paper, A4 (8 1/4 × 11 3/4 in).

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  12. Painting of two red anatomical hearts on white, joined by a long looping line.
    Two Hearts Across a Surrealist Ocean, 2025. Acrylic on canvas, 100 × 100 cm (39 3/8 × 39 3/8 in).

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Series

  1. Drawings

    Ink on paper, A4 to A2. 2024 and 2025. Dense, hatched compositions with text written into the image.

    12 works

  2. Paintings

    Acrylic on canvas. 2023 to 2025. Haloed figures, dotted frames, chequered floors.

    17 works

About

Bio

Kim Mac is a multidisciplinary artist, writer and performer based in Soho, London. She works in ink on paper and acrylic on canvas, and across film, performance and text. Her drawings and paintings draw on alchemy, Celtic mythology, Jungian psychology and esoteric philosophy, and on her own passage through addiction and recovery. The New Rebellion and Alchemical Anarchism are her ongoing frameworks for that work.

Black and white portrait of Kim Mac in a beret on a street in Soho.
Soho.

Approach

Two bodies of work share one grammar. The ink drawings, A4 to A2, are dense and frontal: hatching, stippled borders and looping threads tie figures to hearts, moons, eyes and anatomical fragments, and text is written into the image as motto, caption or diary line.

The acrylics carry the same vocabulary into flat, saturated colour: haloed nudes outlined in black and blue, rows of dots used as frames, chequered floors, open doors and windows. The format is often the tall, narrow panel of the icon or the tarot card. Devotional formats, secular and autobiographical subjects.

Exhibitions & CV

Publications

  • 2025Catalogue of Works, Summer 2025London

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