Katie Stackhouse is an interdisciplinary artist working with public art, sculpture, 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.
Foremost 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.
Recent group exhibitions include the Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art 2025, the 68th Blake Art Prize 2024, and the Incinerator Art Award 2023. Upcoming exhibitions and projects include an exhibition at Madeline Gordon Gallery, Launceston (November 2025) and installation of sculptural public artworks scheduled to show in Melbourne, late 2025 through the 2025 Test Sites, City of Melbourne, Public Art Program.
Katie Stackhouse’s artworks are held in private collections across Australia, Europe, Japan, and the USA.