Katie Stackhouse is an interdisciplinary artist working with sculpture, public art, installation, sound, performance, painting, and video to investigate notions of time, ecology, and contemporary human interactions with place. Stackhouse undertakes detailed site-based research, exploring the interplay between living systems, material resonance, and human behaviour, producing artworks that are delicate and monumental within landscapes and natural environments. Stackhouse’s sculptural forms serve as vessels for environmental knowledge, merging material and poetic sensitivity with conceptual rigour.
Born in Launceston, Stackhouse holds a Master of Contemporary Art (First Class Honours, VCA, 2021), a Bachelor of Fine Arts (University of Tasmania) and undertook postgraduate study at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in the Netherlands. In 2019, her work was selected for PRAXIS 5, an international project coordinated by VCA Access and Project Eleven, where she exhibited sculptures and photographs at the Sarang Building in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Commissions include public sculpture Turtle Guardian, curated by Global-Art-Projects / LXRP Melbourne (2024), private commission Song Vessel, curated by Maudie Palmer AO (2021) and NGV Design Week Grainger Museum installation with composer Sunny Kim (2023), as well as solo exhibitions SYMPHŌNÍA and ‘Sound and Syncopation’ (2023).
Group exhibitions include the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize (2018), ‘VAS HALOS’ at the Meat Market Stables in Naarm/Melbourne (2022), ‘An Ear to the Edge of Sound’ at MILK Gallery (2022) and ‘LOVE, WORK (For KD)’ at Sarah Scout Presents (2022).
Stackhouse has been an artist-in-residence at The Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in the USA, the Amsterdam’s Grafisch Atelier in the Netherlands, and was a 2023 resident artist at Riverbend House, Garambi Baan, as part of the InPlace program.
Stackhouse’s work was included in group exhibitions, ‘Autumn 2026’ at Nicholas Thompson Gallery, ‘Containment’ at Useful Objects Gallery, the Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art 2025, the 68th Blake Art Prize, and the Incinerator Art Award (2023).
Her sculptural work SKY VESSELS has been selected for a major public art commission for the City of Launceston, Lutruwita / Tasmania, which will be installed in September 2026. Stackhouse will present an installation of sculptural public artworks in Melbourne City, late 2026, supported by the City of Melbourne Public Art Test Sites program.
Katie Stackhouse’s artworks are held in private collections across Australia, Europe, Japan, and the USA.