Kirtika Kain is an artist on Darug Country in NSW, Australia. In 2020, she received the Paramatta Artist Studio Program and was a finalist in the Create NSW Emerging Artist Fellowship. Kirtika has done artist residencies in Rome and Siena and has exhibited in Berlin and Mali, collaborating with Dalit artists and thinkers from India and the diaspora. Through conversation with her family and reading the words of Dr B R Ambedkar and Dalit literature extensively, Kain brings together inherited personal and collective memories in her work.