Katie Stackhouse’s artworks respond to research and investigation of notions of time and contemporary human interaction with specific sites, ecologies, and human effects within environments, through sculpture, installation, video, sound, performance, painting and photography. Through these multidisciplinary means, Stackhouse investigates the interconnection of living systems, ceremony, and materiality. Recent sculptural and performance-based works create spatial installations that refer to specific sites in combination with sonic atmospheres. She recently presented the solo installation SYMPHŌNÍA, (‘Art at the Bank’ project -MARS Gallery and Cecil St Precinct, Sept 23), the solo exhibition ‘Sound and Syncopation’, (Maroondah Federation Estate, May-June 23) and a sculptural installation at Grainger Museum in collaboration with composer and performer Sunny Kim (Australian Art Orchestra) partnered with the program for NGV design week, 2023.
Curated commissions include the sculpture Song Vessel (2021) and the book Granite V of poems and photographs relating to her sculptural practice (A Published Event, 2021). Stackhouse holds a Master of Contemporary Art, VCA, (First Class Honours, 2021), a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Graduate Certificate of Visual Art (VCA, First Class Honours). She has conducted post-graduate studies at the Gerrit Rietveld Art Academy in the Netherlands.
In 2019 she exhibited an installation of sculptures and photos in Java in the exhibition ‘PRAXIS 5’, at the Sarang Building in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, coordinated and hosted by VCA Access and Indonesian partners of Project Eleven.
Other selected 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 was a finalist in the Incinerator Art Award 2023: Art for Social Change (Oct-Nov 23) and was selected for the residency at Riverbend House, Garambi Baan within the InPlace residency program (Oct- Nov 2023). Stackhouse has been the recipient of numerous grants that have supported specific projects, including residencies at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in the USA and the Amsterdams’ Grafisch Atelier in the Netherlands. Stackhouse’s works are included in private collections throughout Australia, Europe, Japan and the USA. She is a finalist in The 68th Blake Art Prize, 2024.