Barry Kane (born Kane Begg) is a Black American interdisciplinary artist and writer based in London. Raised across five countries and currently completing an MFA in Communication at the Royal College of Art, he works across painting, moving image and writing.

His practice examines the relationship between the conscious and unconscious, and between the individual and the historical body. Treating private experience as a microcosm of wider Black diasporic histories, Kane explores how memory, migration, spiritual longing, racial violence, and inherited trauma continue to shape identity from within. He approaches history not as something distant or concluded, but as a living psychological inheritance carried through bodies, images and generations. His works manifest as charged symbolic worlds in which beauty and unease, innocence and violence, concealment and revelation coexist.

Across his practice, alchemy becomes a model for collective transformation. The historical fire of Black suffering is confronted not as an ending, but as the material from which another condition might be forged. Gold represents neither wealth nor compensation, but a liberated field. A blank canvas upon which Black life may be authored in with control and freedom, fragmented identities reassembled, and collective wholeness imagined anew.