Kate Cameron Reid
Born: Hong Kong
Lives: Lossiemouth, Scotland
From the Broken House Series, 2024
Glass and cotton thread
19cm x 27cm x 31cm
Kate Cameron Reid
Kate Cameron Reid is a multidisciplinary contemporary artist whose practice is grounded in autobiographical exploration and narrative fragmentation. Each piece serves as a temporal fragment, capturing memory and lived experience engaging with themes of loss, grief, trauma and fragility. Informed by a background in pattern cutting, her sculptural approach emphasises the construction of three-dimensional forms from two-dimensional designs.
Broken House is a series of sculptural works created from shattered glass structures —houses that have been painstakingly pieced back together and stitched with cotton embroidery thread. The act of mending these fragile forms serves as both a literal and metaphorical gesture: a reflection on the silent, often invisible, labour of women, particularly mothers, who are left to hold together broken systems with tenderness and resilience. These delicate reconstructions mirror the emotional and structural fractures within capitalism. In a system that continues to devalue care work, mothers are often expected to bear the emotional and logistical burdens without recognition or support. We live within a framework we did not choose, repairing the damage with whatever thread we can find—domestic, emotional, maternal.