Spanning a full spectrum of theatrical, live and visual art Kaiya Bartholomew’s arts practice draws on her expansive interests and works within the ever shifting boundaries of a constantly changing world. 

Searching for tenderness and connection she peruses literature, theatrical traditions, modern art practices, poetry, dance and popular culture in all of its many headed and fast paced glory; to appropriate, borrow, collage and reimagine into works that speak openly of a human experience in an uncertain reality. 

With collaboration at the heart of her practice and celebrating humour wherever it can be found, Kaiya looks for moments where the personal and the tender may become a shared and connected experience. Kaiya directs attention, the lense, the gaze, the composition and breathes life into a host of multimedia projects. 

Kaiya graduated with a degree in Contemporary Performance Practice from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, trained with Fourth Monkey Theatre Company in London and studied clowning at the Ecolé de Philipe Gaulier in Paris, France. 

Kaiya has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Short+Sweet Festival Sydney and Berlin Peace Festival and filmed on location across Europe with Sabbatical Production Company. She has also been part of the short film committee for Africa in Motion Film Festival, Scotland.

Kaiya is a member of Saltspace artists co-operative Glasgow and has exhibited with Flos Collective. She is a part of the curatorial team for ‘Resistance’ an ever expanding exhibition and archive of protest and resistance movements in the UK over the past 40 years.

Kaiya is co-recipient of the Avrom Greenbaum Players Award for Direction.