Artist, writer and researcher exploring how systems of power shape bodies, materials and environments.
Kaylie J. Stuart is a UK-born, Netherlands-based artist, writer and researcher whose practice moves between material experimentation and narrative inquiry. Working across clay, essayistic writing, fiction and multidisciplinary research, she explores how systems of power apply pressure to bodies, materials and environments. She previously exhibited her visual art under the name Kaylie Kist.
Her sculptural work investigates how surfaces record gesture, repetition and stress, while her writing traces how similar pressures operate within institutions, landscapes and relationships. Across these forms, her work examines how structural forces accumulate over time — shaping bodies, communities and the stories we tell about them.
Kaylie studied Creative Writing at the University of Oxford, holds a Master of Fine Arts from the HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, and a BA in Fine Art from Leeds Metropolitan University (UK).
Her work has been exhibited in the UK and the Netherlands, including BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons, Academie Galerie (Utrecht), and the A-Space Gallery (Hastings, UK). She contributes writing to Metropolis M, the Dutch contemporary art magazine
Kaylie makes contributions to Metropolis M, Dutch Contemporary Art Magazine.