ABOUT

PAIX (Gee Katungi) is a musician, interdisciplinary artist and director based in Scotland.

PAIX’s works span sound, visual media, and live performance — often blurring boundaries between disciplines, and rooted in collaboration. As PAIX (meaning peace), her work centres care and liberatory praxis, drawing from Black feminist thought, somatic and spiritual inquiry, oral storytelling, and speculative fiction. Across all mediums, PAIX’s work seeks to remember, play, (re) connect and re-imagine - exploring new paradigms, grounded in joy, connection, emotional honesty.

PAIX has released over 20 tracks to date, with several receiving recognition as BBC Radio 6 and BBC Introducing Records of the Week and designed sound for multiple film works, including the award-winning Ghost Island by Lisandro Suriel and Svikiro by Sekai Machache. As a featured artist and co-writer on With Love, From Glasgow by Rebecca Vasmant, PAIX contributed to a project that charted in the Top 10 of both the UK and International Jazz charts. Their collaboration continued on Who We Are Becoming, longlisted for the 2025 Scottish Album of the Year Award.

Currently, PAIX is writing and recording a debut solo album, supported by Creative Scotland and Help Musicians, featuring collaborators from across Scotland, the UK and the world. Alongside this, they are writing and directing a new short film commissioned by the National Theatre of Scotland.

PAIX is deeply collaborative in process and practice. Regularly working with artists across disciplines, creating immersive and relational works that span performance, sound, digital media and film. Her collaborations are rooted in local and international networks, with a focus on slow, intentional and relational processes and experimentation and collective authorship.

In addition to leading her own creative projects, PAIX is regularly commissioned to develop original songs, scores, sound design, and visual work for both screen and stage.

PAIX is also a member of several collectives including:

• Yon Afro Collective – an interdisciplinary collective of Black artists in Scotland

• HenHoose – an all-women and non-binary music production and song-writing collective

• Black Birthers, Scotland – which PAIX founded, focused on building a dedicated community space, rooted in solidarity, collective care and joy for, isolated Black mamas, birthers and their children.

Alongside a flourishing artistic practice, PAIX is a long-standing campaigner and organiser.

She is currently Executive Director at Kinfolk Network, a UK-wide organisation that brings Black organisers and campaigners together to strategise, connect and heal. With a background in grassroots movement-building, Gillian has held positions as an elected community councillor, trustee, youth worker and remains actively involved in community organising.

She is committed to co-creating sustainable, liberatory ecosystems for a just and livable future. As a mentor (through MCR Pathways and informal networks), and a cultural worker, her approach is shaped by values of care, access, accountability, transformative justice, radical imagination and anti-oppression.