Kay Shah is an installation artist and digital painter
Kay Shah (b.1994) is a British-Pakistani artist from Manchester with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from the Manchester School of Art.
They use digital painting to create semi-abstract surreal environments informing a
narrative, utilising colour to direct the viewer’s emotive perceptions. These ethereal
environments serve as a space for the viewer to be immersed through interrelated
perspectives; inviting the audience to inhabit the space, and blurring the lines between real and perceived realities.
Geometric figures regularly feature in Kay Shah’s work; a sphere, representative of
a natural entity, symbolises the self; the cuboid, a more man-made angular form,
symbolises the other. The abstract quality of these forms invites the viewer to
objectively project themselves, allowing them to integrate with the environment, further drawing them into the piece.
Often deriving from a visceral emotion, they explore themes of distance, isolation,
other-worldliness and cultural identity. These notions provoke the question of
placement and non-placement, serving as a reaction to sociocultural and
interpersonal relationships in the landscape of contemporary society.
email: kayshah.artist@gmail.com
instagram: @kayshah_art
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