Latest Shape collaboration: kARTa was shortlisted for the 2023 Emergent bursary with BALTIC and Shape Arts.
Artist statement: kARTa works predominantly with clay, but also uses other media, including photography.
Her thematic explorations include verticality and horizontality as metaphors for states of wakefulness/sleep, function/dysfunction, presence/oblivion, health/sickness and the in-between state of not being fully alive nor dead.
In 2021, she was a resident with the Centre for the Study of Substructured Loss. She is part of the Bethlem Gallery Artists Collective and a recent graduate of UAL Central St Martins.

Still from ‘Quiescence’ by kARTa Kaur (ongoing)
“When using clay, I literally build and re-build myself through my actions with the material and make something of more substance, resilience, and permanence than myself. For me making is a process of construction and self-deconstruction, that makes visible what cannot be explained in word…