ARTIST BIO

Camilla Howalt (b. 1968) works with layered, constructed surfaces that operate through time, material, and perception. Across media, the work attends to traces held by surfaces through mark-making, studies of front, back, and in-between, and processes including drawing, painting, photography, pyrography, drilling, and embroidery. Each work functions as a depth field in which multiple temporal and material layers coexist, becoming legible gradually through sustained viewing.

The practice engages construction in its broadest sense - artistic, aesthetic, linguistic, and craft-based - alongside archaeological, philosophical, and psychoanalytical modes of inquiry, grounded in continuous material practice. Attention to material behaviour, surface, and spatial relation is informed by long-term movement across Europe, America, and Africa.

The works unfold through duration rather than immediacy, operating via accumulation, restraint, and close observation. Meaning is not delivered in advance but emerges through prolonged engagement with material process and structural continuity.