Kara Simpson United Kingdom

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Kara Simpson is a London-based digital artist whose work explores impressions, internal dialogue, and the emotional landscapes we carry. Through playful, otherworldly imagery, she blends nostalgia with darker themes, creating spaces where complex feelings can be approached with softness and curiosity.

My practice, at its core, is a personal exploration of memory, dreams, and internal dialogue. By blending individual and pop culture nostalgia, I create playful, otherworldly spaces that give difficult or complex emotions a space to breathe. While the work often draws on a childlike visual language, it also challenges the idea of childhood as a time of unfettered innocence.

More recently, I have become interested in the body as an internal landscape shaped by both lived experience and inherited influences. This shift has been informed by a growing awareness of how closely the body responds to what it experiences on a daily level, leading me to pay closer attention to these processes in both life and work. I’m exploring ideas around how what we consume, as well as our thoughts and beliefs, might affect us on a deeper internal level. The use of playfulness and joy in my work acts as a counterbalance to this, reflecting an attempt to bring a sense of lightness into these internal spaces. In parallel I’m also drawn to environments built around pleasure and attention, particularly British seaside towns. Through my work, I explore connections between these external spaces and our inner worlds, and how both are shaped by thoughts, behaviours and time.