Katrina Abbatuan is a Filipino-born, British-raised visual artist working across oil and acrylic painting, film photography, and digital image-making. Shaped by a third-culture lens, her practice is attentive to how meaning shifts with context, how identity is assembled across multiple worlds, and how images carry different histories depending on where they are held.

Her work begins with what is lived, witnessed, absorbed, and carried: moments held in memory, photographs taken in the present, and the visual data of everyday life and contemporary image culture. In her film photography, images are captured in the moment, holding light, atmosphere, and time as they were lived. In painting and digital work, visual motifs and memories are translated and occasionally echoed—filtered through attention, feeling, and time—then edited and recomposed into contemplative, charged tableaux where fragments remain visible but held in relation. Symbols recur, atmospheres gather, and disparate references can coexist within a single internal logic.

Across mediums, the work asks: what makes us unique, and what ties us together? Abbatuan’s worlds hold both at once: fragments that remain distinct, and a thread that draws them into relation. Each piece is an invitation to enter, linger, and feel that union forming, quietly, before it is explained.

Based between Nottingham and London, Abbatuan holds an MA Joint Honours in Art History and Social Anthropology from the University of St Andrews, and has exhibited in group exhibitions in South Korea, Germany, and the UK.