The Global Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Kayla's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
About Kayla
I'm an artist film-maker who uses a process-based dialogic methodology informed by écriture féminine to explore the interrelationship between bodies and forgotten, liminal spaces framed around subjectivity, place and memory, embodiment and technological mediation, from posthuman feminist perspectives. Working with material and digital film, including 360, my current research centres on watery places such as rivers, estuaries and coastal zones.
I collaborate with the film-maker and sound artist, Dr Stuart Moore, to explore the interplay in landscape film-making between place and memory. Our ethical, dialogic practice embraces environmental and ecological themes at the intersection of post-industrial landscape and climate emergency; an additional strand investigates the impacts of British post-colonialism in Cyprus through the lens of children whose fathers served with the RAF on the island during the Cold War.
Noted for my avant-garde and experimental materialist works (O'Pray, 1993, 1996; Rees, 2011; Bendazzi, 2015, Knowles, 2017) and feminist film-making (Curtis, 1996, 2007; Byrne, 1999; Hatfield, 2006; Kitowski, 2015; Atkinson, 2025), my films are exhibited internationally in galleries, festivals, public spaces and touring programmes and include commissions from the Arts Council, the British Film Institute, the BBC, ITV and Channel 4. My moving image artworks are held in many archives and collections, including the BFI National Archive.
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