b.1994 Singapore
Lives and works in the UK
Education
2014 - 2018 Slade School of Art, Ba Fine Art Sculpture
2013 - 2014 City and Guilds School of Art Foundation
Exhibitions and Residencies
2019 Newbridge Collective Studio Open Studio, The Newbridge Project, Gateshead
2019 Online Presents curated by Jessy Jepacks, Skelf [www.skelf.org.uk]
2019 Five Pound Poster Party, CBS Gallery, Liverpool.
2019 Sentient Home Devices Woon Fellowship solo Show, Gallery North, Newcastle
2019 Up is a Relative Concept: Launch of Fold(Lab), Fold, London
2019 London Art Fair with IMT Gallery, Business Design Centre, London
2019 Bloomberg New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, London
2018/19 The Woon Prize Residency, Northumbria University, Newcastle
2018 Manchester Contemporary Art Fair, Manchester Central, Manchester
2018 Chop Leisure, IMT Gallery, London
2018 Opolis, 93 Baker Street, London
2018 The Woon Foundation Painting and Sculpture Prize, Gallery North, Newcastle
2018 Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Liverpool Biennial 2018, Liverpool
2017 Carnival of the Animals and Danse Macabre, San Mei Gallery, London
2017 Chain by 15, Papa Bear, London
2017 Slade Print Fair, UCL, London
2016 Vault, UCL Art Museum, London
2016 Long Distant Song Effects, The Milton Gallery, London
2015 Les Etudiants, Salon, London
2015 Rose, Lemons, Okra or Goutweed, The Embassy Tea Gallery, London
2013 Works on Paper Fair, Science Museum, London
2013 National Open Art Competition, The Pallent House Gallery, London
2013 National Open Art Competition, The Royal College of Art Galleries, London
Awards
2018 The Duveen Travel Scholarship | UCL
2018 The Woon Prize | The Woon Foundation
2017 The Alfred W Rich Prize | Slade
2015 Max Werner Drawing Prize | Slade
2013 The Piron Strange Award | National Open Art Competition
Workshops
2019 Sunday Spot Sessions, South London Gallery, London
2019 Dialogues: characters in Clay ceramic workshop, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Kara builds sculptures encompassing many different materials and mediums, creating installations that have including kinetic and robotic pieces, animations, sound, water features and horticultural elements. Her work focuses on the implications fast evolving technologies; ethical conundrums and potential consequences of developing robotics and artificial intelligence, transhumanist ideologies, and evolving theories of reality and simulation.
Her installations often present a jumble of juxtapositions; handcrafted and readymade objects, organic and synthetic materials, and temporal limbos of ancient folktales translated into contemporary settings. Installations are constructed as cross sections of fictional narratives that weave throughout her work, a device to intersect fragmented concepts and lay them out as something tangible. Anthropomorphic features, intimated limbs and moving elements are used to transform sculptures in to animate creatures; characters through whom we can empathise and examine individual experiences within these imagined future scenarios.