Katie Kaur (b. 2000) is a British-Indian artist based in London. Her painting practice explores themes of memory, identity, and belonging through an investigation of time, perception and lived experience. For Kaur, painting is a space of enquiry, exploring what it means to be submerged - still and weightless, yet reaching to stay afloat.
Untethered from the physical world, Kaur’s paintings depict ghost-like figures, suspended within fluid landscapes, occupying a space between feeling and dream. Working through gradual layers of diluted pigment, Kaur develops a visual language that moves like water, allowing forms to dissolve into one another. Fragments of hand-stitched canvas create protruding ruptures in time and space - moments briefly held together - whilst raw fabric embodies shifting light, pooling from above.
The five rivers of the Panjab are a recurring metaphor throughout her practice, a presence that gives and takes, heals and divides, flows and endures. They became a symbol of the constant ebb and flow of the human experience, while reflecting the artist’s relationship to place and identity.