Bio

Jaz Kilmister is a photographer and visual artist based in London. Born in Singapore and raised in South East England, Kilmister received his undergraduate education in design and analogue photography at West Surrey College of Art & Design.

He later specialised in digital design, working in advertising. After establishing his own creative agency in 2006, Kilmister returned to freelance design and creative roles in 2016. During this time, he also trained in photography at Morley College in Chelsea, and developed a strong focus on photography and visual arts in his personal practice.

Artist Statement

My art is a means of posing questions and exploring the intersection between illusion and reality, between the external and the internal.

Through large format colour photographs, I aim to capture a psychological space that is both familiar and elusive, something akin to a half-remembered place.

My creative process involves merging digital and analogue techniques, including darkroom-exposed mixed media, collage, and sculpture, with digital composite methods. I draw on a combination of design methodology and intuition to find my way through concept and representation.

The goal of my work is to delve beneath the surface of what is observable and examine the tension between objective and subjective perspectives, as well as the nature of memory, psychology, and metaphysics.

I believe that reality is a complex and poorly understood medium, and it is with curiosity, coupled with a passion for the aesthetic potential of photography and a sense of wonder cultivated during my childhood spent in various locations around the world, that drives my artistic endeavours.