kAIYA Bartholomew

Kaiya Bartholomew (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Glasgow, with a practice that spans the theatrical and visual arts.

 

Kaiya’s visual arts practice utislises found and collected images and personal photography to create multi-layered and charismatic compositions. Her performance draws on theatrical trope, movement, costume and verbatim practices to tell stories that illuminate and elivate the mundane and celebrate humor and tenderness wherever it can be found. 

 

Kaiya has trained in traditional theatre and clowning and has a degree in Contemporary Performance Practice from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. 

She has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Short+Sweet Festival Sydney, Berlin Peace Festival and filmed on location across Europe with Sabbatical Production Company. She has undertaken placements with Frank.Theatre Adelaide and TSODU London and developed international collaborative work for COP26 climate conference.

She is the co-recipient of the Avrom Greenbaum Players Award for Direction and continues to create work with long term collaborators in London and Vienna.

 

Kaiya is one half of London/Glasgow artistic duo Paper&Clay and has collaborated with flos collective, Space Generators and The Steam Ship Project Space to bring community exhibitions to life.