Malaysian-born Kimberley Boudville holds a Diploma in Fine Arts from The One Academy, Malaysia and graduated with Bachelor of Fine Arts Practice Honours (First Class) at NAFA, Singapore in 2021. She was awarded the NAFA Best of Best in 2021, The One Academy Hall of Fame, Best of Fine Arts in 2017 and 2018. She was also a finalist in UOB Painting of the Year 2018 and 2017. Boudville has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including A Temporary Self, Temu House, Selangor, Malaysia (2022) and Unknown Asia Art Fair, Osaka, Japan (2022). She has held solo exhibitions, such as My Journey, at Artemis Art, Kuala Lumpur (2020) and Chrysalis at Backroom Gallery, Kuala Lumpur (2022).

Boudville works with a variety of medium including oil, ink and printmaking. Time Capsules is a bold and experimental installation that demonstrates the artist’s courage, craftsmanship and willingness to explore beyond unconventional materials, to convey her story by building a fantastical and imaginary world to tell her stories.

The beauty and emotive element of work come in the form of a withered garden, replete with dried leaves, loose soil and crystallised butterflies encased in bell jars of various sizes on a large round table. Resembling exhibits at a museum, the dramatic installation is peppered with silkscreened text on an arrangement of dried leaves, as if labelling the taxidermied specimens. The installation represented a memory of a visit to the museum with her late father who had shaped her life, growing up. For Boudville, butterflies are significant, like a time capsule the crystalised creatures appear frozen in time and symbolically, they represent a wish for time to be at standstill, to relish in another moment with her late father.