ARTIST BIO

Camilla Howalt (b. 1968) works with layered, constructed surfaces, exploring the intersections of time, material, and perception. Across media, her practice attends to the traces surfaces hold - through mark-making, studies of front, back, and in-between, and processes such as drawing, painting, photography, pyrography, drilling and embroidery. Each work functions as a depth field: a space where multiple temporal and material layers coexist, revealing themselves gradually through careful looking.

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

Her works are held in public and private collections across Europe. They offer viewers and collectors the opportunity to engage with work that unfolds slowly, rewarding close observation and sustained attention to material, process, and presence.