Moira Cameron was born in London to a family of artists. Her father was the celebrated figurative sculptor Ronald Cameron (1930-2013), and her mother, Dorothy Cameron, was a sculptor in her own right. Cameron's practice explores female agency and artistic legacy, revisiting art historical works through a contemporary female lens.
After decades of collaborative work—first with her late partner, artist David Spiller (1942-2018), and later with their son, Xavier Baxter—Cameron has returned to her independent practice. Her bold, expressive mark-making becomes a gesture of feminine agency, dissolving traditional boundaries between artist and subject. She replaces passive observation with active authorship, subverting the male gaze in both content and form. Her work invites the viewer into the emotional and physical act of creation, where the historically objectified female body gives way to the body in action.
Cameron lives and works in London. She holds a BA (Fine Art) from Ravensbourne College of Art and an MFA from Chelsea College of Art. In July 2025, her figurative self-portrait, A Life Lived, won the National Portrait Gallery's Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award.