Katie Kaur is a British artist of Indian and European descent, currently studying at the Royal College of Art in London.
Her research 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, including the quiet anxiety of existence. 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, exposed fabric becomes shifting light pooling from above.
Water is central to Kaur’s research, informed by Punjabi histories in which it is both life-giving and destructive - a paradoxical force of continuity and change that echoes the multiplicity of human experience.
Kaur seeks a visual language that bridges the material and sensorial, the ephemeral and the physical. She wants to understand what it means to be submerged - still and weightless, yet grasping to stay afloat.