Kitty Rice is a British painter currently based in south London. She made the switch to painting from designing via the post-graduate programme at the Royal Drawing School in 2022. Her recent series has a strong influence of the surreal, drawing memorised compositions in a process which was conceived by the Automatists. She explores themes of feminine strength as seen through a child’s eyes. Her memories often rest in a place of pre-adolescent understanding of the adult, sexual world. Often verging on the sinister or melancholy, these memories are visited through a now adult grasp of the same subject.

She also works in gouache washes considering the nature of filmic pixels whilst moving between two languages of memory, both blurry and hyper-real. She is interested in how the male gaze has an effect on a childhood projection of adult sexualised femininity. She is often influenced by western film stills and a depiction of the female form through the Hollywood lens.