ARTIST BIO

Camilla Howalt (b. 1968) creates layered, constructed surfaces that investigate the intersections of time, material, and perception. Across media, she explores how surfaces store traces of experience, employing mark-making, visual studies of front, back, and in-between, and experimental processes such as pyrography, embroidery, knotting, and digital or photographic interventions. Each work functions as a depth field - a structurally complex site where multiple temporal and material layers coexist and interact.

A First-Class Honours graduate from Wimbledon School of Art with an MA in Modern European Philosophy, Camilla’s practice is informed by construction in its broadest sense - artistic, aesthetic, linguistic, and craft-based - as well as by archaeological, philosophical, and psychoanalytical inquiry. Extensive travel across Europe, America, and Africa has further shaped her understanding of material, surface, and spatial relations.

Her originals, prints, and books are held in public and private collections across Europe, offering viewers and collectors engagement with rigorous, structurally attentive, and materially nuanced work.