Art

KATHRYN PIERCE: NEUROAFFIRMATIVE ART

As an autistic person with ADHD, how I experience and manage my world

is best expressed through my art practice.

I enjoy creating highly-detailed intuitive work focusing on organic forms and instinctive pattern-making, made possible through unconscious repetition and meditation.

Letting go of intentional control restores my internal sensory regulation, creates an experience of deep patience, and a slowing or suspension of time.

Trusting spontaneous creation and intuitive gesture as an art practice enables me

to enjoy experimenting with paradoxes, scale, depth, movement,

complexity, tension, intensity and resolution.

Using abstract shadow mapping allows the forms to emerge

out of the unknown, led by curioslty and surprise.

I am proud to be a member of the NEUK Collective - a community

for and of neurodivergent artists across Scotland.

My work "Emergence" was displayed in the 'Together I Apart'

exhibition at 103 Trongate in Glasgow which ran from 18th April to 23rd May 2026.

I was delighted to be one of the

invited artists participating in Grantown Open Studios for 2026,

which took place from 1st to 4th May.