Statement
‘we learn to interpret the conversations associated with photography, cinema, painting, street signs and so on,’ and our knowledge of these systems ’lead us to believe that the world is a fixed and orderly place’ (Lingwood quoted in Kester, Rachel Whitread’s House, 1995).
When I was a girl, my family moved from Toronto, a city in the middle of a continent, to a rural island in the Caribbean Sea. Mixed in with my astonishment at the clichéd truth of the velvety heat of the scented tropical air, was my awareness of the unfamiliar design of street lighting. Although I was young, this move away from a place I understood as my world brought into view for me the constructedness of my reality. My understanding of television also changed and what had been for me a form of entertainment became a way to communicate. My mother’s informational puppet show, she was in public health then, was broadcast daily. The puppets could be found in the opening time slot of the TV channel of this island, which broadcast during after school hours. Later my school selected me and other girls to play the pirates for a television commercial promoting Birds Eye ready-made food for children, which was also broadcast in the UK. This experience highlighted for me the role of the landscape within the potential of moving image. Subsequently back in Toronto, I studied painting at OCA(DU) and then in Florence, Italy. Later, I moved to London and studied printmaking and painting at The Slade School of Fine Art.
Currently I move between London and Toronto. As a PhD candidate at RCA, I (re)consider the landscape, the nature of site and conversations associated with media, in the contexts of art practice. I use photography, drawing and video installation and other media within my art practice and research.
I am a founding editor on a team continuing to develop an online academic research journal, itinerant space. Issue 2: iterations was published in July 2024.
itinerant space: a journal of art, design and communication research practices is an experimental online platform for doctoral researchers. Issue 2 builds on the learning of the pilot issue to iteratively develop an expanded network of the RCA’s wider doctoral research community, and to stretch beyond the academy. As an experimental platform, the journal offers a unique opportunity to inform interdisciplinary conversations and modes of research dissemination.
Editor-in-chief: Professor Teal Triggs
Founding editors: Nick Bell, Karen Bosy, Kirsty Smith
Editors, Issue 2: Nick Bell, Karen Bosy, Kam Rehal
Find out more ➡️ itinerant-space.co.uk
My short CV is on News page of this blog.
instagram: @kmbosy
itinerant space / Peer Review
We welcome expressions of interest from research students, from all the Schools at RCA, who are interested in helping with peer review. Contact the editors

2024 | K M Bosy
itinerant space, Issue 2, was published July 2024, during RCA’s DTP week.
The co-editors of itinerant space launched an Open Call for Issue 2, during the RCA PhD Research Biennale 2023 at The Copeland Gallery in June. The call was open to PhD students in all the school at RCA, at all stages of the PhD journey. As a founding editor of this journal, I am looking forward to the new ideas each iteration will bring.
Click this link to view itinerant space, Issue 1: pilot. Our guide to submitting can be found here. Open Call for submissions can be found here.