Ones to Watch: Kathryn Camm

Outstanding artists to have on your radar right now. Charlotte Middleton writes.

Hobart-based artist Kathryn Camm delicately explores the female lived experience, using drawing to represent figure and form. Honouring generational knowledge and experience, she frequently puts her command of fine and continuous line to captivating use, embroidering textiles created by her mother, grandmother, or great-grandmother. Graduating first with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Secondary Education, in 2017, Camm undertook a further Honours year in Fine Arts majoring in textiles and drawing through the University of Tasmania, Hobart. Camm has continued to gain momentum in recent years, selected as a finalist in the National Works on Paper Prize in 2016, the Marie Ellis OAM Prize for Drawing in 2018, and the Women’s Art Prize Tasmania in 2019. Camm’s work was also included in the Mona Foma exhibition Art of the Body in 2019, and she was most recently a finalist in the 2022 Glover Prize. Camm is currently working on a new body of paintings and stitchings featuring local orchid life in Tasmania, exploring how closely the flowers mimic the female human form.

Featured image: Kathryn Camm, The Experience of Stitch, 2019. Hand-stitched embroidery, chiffon, hoop, 60cm diameter. Courtesy: the artist.

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