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Jan 10

About the creative process: A concept, a signifying gesture and a symbol. Drawing on Lacan's theory of projection, this piece connects psychoanalytic insight with creative practice. The concept of projection—displacing internal thoughts or desires onto others—guides a deeper exploration of mental patterns, mirrored in the visual development of the French Knots series and the Love Letters series, which experiment with material, symbolism, and clusters of meaning.

Camilla Howalt

Visual Artist

After graduating with First-Class Honours from Wimbledon School of Art and completing an MA at Kingston University’s Center for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Camilla Howalt (b.1968) established her Malmö-based studio in 2021. Her practice focuses on creating prints and original artworks that blend photography, painting, and digital techniques.

Working across painting, textile-based media, and photography to explore perception, materiality, and fragmentation, her work traces the ways pain - physical, emotional, existential - inscribes itself onto surfaces, bodies, and spaces. Through mapped and layered textures, she investigates how presence unfolds in the tension between sensuality, introspection, and abstraction.

Camilla’s work is part of private collections across Europe, and her prints are available for purchase, bringing her distinct, contemplative style into homes and spaces looking for both aesthetic and thoughtful engagement.

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