Pam Guhrs-Carr is a Zambian artist who is deeply concerned with the relationship between humans and the natural world. Her studio, and home, in the “bush” in South Luangwa, is embedded in an ecology that intertwines wild nature with human society. 

Elephants pass by her studio daily, leopards walk by her window at night and baboons roost in the trees. Like everywhere else, this ecology holds in its fragile balance the forces of market capitalism, tourism, development, and the commodification of nature. 

Pam’s art-making in this space interrogates our kinship with, dependence on, and vulnerability in relation to the more-than-human world. Through her paintings and sculptures she approaches an eco-spiritual ethos that transcends western binaries of nature vs civilisation, predator vs prey. She invites us to contemplate deeper entanglements - our place in the food chain, living side by side with predators, and the dangerous, transformative power of the artist as custodian, shaman, or critic.

The themes that stalk across her canvases are of transformation, and the uneasy connection between the world of bush/spirit and the domestic sphere. Thus, she urges us to question ourselves and our place in the natural world through mutual acts of interest, respect, care and cooperation.