Kim Paton

Kim Paton has been the director of Objectspace since 2015. Her interest is in interdisciplinary exhibition-making across the fields of craft, design, architecture, and contemporary art. Paton has curated and written extensively on object-based art forms, including for the new Warwick Freeman monograph Hook Hand Heart Star, published by arnoldsche Art Publishers. Paton is the co-editor of the publication The Chair: A Story of Design and Making in Aotearoa (2024), and co-authored the book Contemporary Jewellery in Context, published by arnoldsche Art Publishers (2017).