• Kayoon Anderson is an artist whose practice is shaped by a dialogue between architecture, memory, and identity. 

    Anderson studied architecture at the University of Cambridge before turning toward painting, a shift that continues to inform her distinctive approach to space and composition. Following her move to Siena, where she immersed herself in medieval painting, Anderson completed a diploma in portrait painting at the Heatherley School of Fine Art and later earned a master’s degree in fine art from City & Guilds of London. Her work has been exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions across the UK, Europe, and the United States.

     

    Although figures appear in Anderson’s paintings, they are not presented as the central subject. Instead, people exist as part of the architectural fabric of the space, blurring the boundary between body and environment. Her compositions often depict imagined interiors—quiet, intimate spaces where identity unfolds subtly through structure, colour, and arrangement rather than overt narrative. This sensitivity to space reflects both her architectural training and her experience of a mixed-heritage upbringing.

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    Drawing on photographs and memories from her time in the UK, Europe, and Korea, Anderson constructs dream-like scenes that merge multiple geographies and moments. The figures she paints are often those closest to her, assembled alongside objects, patterns, and colours that carry personal meaning. These elements are puzzle-pieced together to form spaces that resist fixed time and place, instead functioning as layered reflections of her evolving sense of self.

     

    Influenced by the playful multi-perspective approaches of European medieval painting and traditional Korean munbangdo still lifes, Anderson seeks balance and containment within her compositions. The resulting works are contemplative and restrained, offering viewers spaces that feel both deeply personal and quietly universal, where memory, architecture, and identity coexist in delicate equilibrium.

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