With a fine art and philosophy background, Kam (she/her) works across printmaking to photography with materials such as clay and salt to understand “what does it mean to belong in something?” Disconnected from where she is “really from”, she shares the failure of trying to remember something that never existed.
My Art is Dead comes from the idea that art (as a verb) is mourning; between being created (thus alive) and being completed (thus dead). As artists we are between remembering and forgetting. Kam wants to celebrate the mundane pauses that happen in this space and allow for conversation to happen between our thoughts, material, process and place.
My Art is Dead comes from the idea that art (as a verb) is mourning; between being created (thus alive) and being completed (thus dead). As artists we are between remembering and forgetting. Kam wants to celebrate the mundane pauses that happen in this space and allow for conversation to happen between our thoughts, material, process and place.
Education
2009 - Master of Fine Art - Distinction
2008 - BA(hons) Art, Philosophy, Contemporary Practices - 1st Class Honours
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee
Awards
2008 - William Sangster Phillips Postgraduate Award
2007 - The Cross Trust Undergraduate Vacation Award
2007 - Carnegie Travel Scholarship Award, shortlisted artist
Group Exhibitions
December 2025 - The Thread that Pulls, Visual Arts Scotland, Edinburgh
February 2024 - Then & Now, Visual Arts Scotland, Edinburgh
March 2022 - REVERB, Visual Arts Scotland (online)
November 2020 - Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Summerhall, Edinburgh
April 2018 - A Legacy of Art and Design, University of Dundee
June 2014 - ArtFest, charity fundraiser, RBS HQ, Gogarburn, Edinburgh
November 2011 - Poetry Beyond Text, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
April 2011 - Altered Images, Axolotl Gallery, Edinburgh
October 2009 - o nought zero, Taigh Chearsabhagh, North Uist September 2009 - Masters Degree Show, Francis Cooper Gallery, Dundee
February 2008 - The Visible and the Invisible, Lower Foyer Gallery, Dundee
November 2007 - Preview, Roseangle Gallery, Dundee
Talks/Events/Text
February 2025 - Essays on Salt, contributor
February 2024 - Forty Years of Art and Art History in Scotland, 1984-2024 - Scottish Society of Art History
November 2018 - What I want to be when I grow up, Talking Heads, Creative Edinburgh
May 2018 - A Legacy of Art and Design, University of Dundee
October 2011 - Edinburgh Artists’ DIY Soapbox, Collective, Edinburgh
June 2011 - Select, Coup Red, Embassy Annuale, Edinburgh
June 2010 - Reading group session, The City and the Stars, Stills, Edinburgh
October 2009 - Artist talk o, nought, zero: behind, in front of, without, Taigh Chearsabhagh, North Uist
Performances/ Participant
Various 2009 - Exchange performances with Jonathon Baxter https://jonathanbaxter.me
August 2009 - Pamela So, Diaspora project, Edinburgh Internationa Festival
February 2009 - Exquiste Corpse - a contemporary unfolding, Francis Cooper Gallery Dundee