Katie Kaur is a half-Indian British artist currently enrolled at the Royal College of Art, graduating in 2025. 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, including solitude, loss and 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 form protruding ruptures in time and space - moments briefly held together - whilst raw, exposed canvas becomes shifting light pooling down from above.
Kaur seeks a visual language that bridges the material and sensorial, the ephemeral and the physical. The viscosity of water acts as a metaphor for the vastness of existence and the uncontrollable forces of life. Kaur wants to understand what it means to be submerged - still and weightless, yet grasping to stay afloat.