Linett Kamala is an interdisciplinary artist, educator and carnivalist born in London, United Kingdom, who works across a range of media including paintings, installation, murals and DJ soundscapes.

Deeply rooted in community empowerment, Linett’s socially engaged creative practice ranges from mentoring emerging creatives to taking up space through festival culture as she draws inspiration from oral histories, carnivals of the diaspora and Jamaican culture.

Often referring to her monochrome expressive text-based art pieces as ‘freestyle calligraffiti’, Kamala’s first piece of street artwork dates to the early 1970s when as a child she painted a mural on the front of a youth club building in Kensal Green, London.

Linett is President of the University of the Arts London Alumni of Colour Association having graduated from UAL in 1991, a Board Director for the Notting Hill Carnival, the second biggest festival on the planet, and Founding Director of Lin Kam Art. Lin Kam Art delivers performance outreach work in mainly educational and community settings, facilitating the therapeutic joy of expression through festival culture. Examples include curating the Uplifting Langa through Reachable Art (ULTRA) Wellbeing Festival in Langa, Cape Town in South Africa, and the ongoing Recipe for a Happy Mind Project for young people in Hanover, Jamaica and across schools in London.