Katie Kaur is a British artist of Indian and European descent, currently studying at the Royal College of Art in London.
Her work is drawn to the sensation of being underwater - a liminal space where light murmurs overhead and time slows into liquid silence.
Recent works depict ghost-like figures drifting through fluid landscapes, a distant realm suspended between feeling and dream.
Through painting, Kaur explores intangible, cognitive and emotional states of being. Working with a reductive palette, she gradually layers diluted washes of pigment onto the canvas, evoking the slow passage of time. Fragments of hand-stitched canvas create protruding ruptures in time and space - moments briefly held together - whilst raw fabric becomes shifting light, pooling from above.
Water is central to the research, drawing upon the metaphorical weight of the Punjabi river: a force that both gives and takes, heals and divides, flows and endures.
Kaur wants to understand what it means to be submerged - still and weightless, yet grasping to stay afloat.