The constant touchstones of Stephen Killick’s practice, writes Louise Martin-Chew, “remain vested in the elements that shape our world, climate and environmental change, and the apocalypse of many and constant international wars. In these artworks are sightlines of Killick’s experience and ideas; nature and culture, war and respite, humans at odds with each other, in harmony with nature, dressed for battle, and the spectre (with us already) of AI.

“Killick’s practice as an ‘artist – activist – diarist’ is a self and existential exploration, with lyricism, bewilderment and joy his accompanists. In his hands we share a journey that touches and echoes our own, as humans trying to make sense of a world that is at once tangible and removed.”

- January 2026, Louise Martin-Chew, art words