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Originally from Ottawa, Katherine has since lived in Vancouver for over 40 years. In 1993 she became active in the local artist's community and went on to graduate from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2004. As well as being a founding member of the Pride in Art Society, which hosts the annual Queer Arts Festival in Vancouver,
Katherine is also one of a group of local artist who founded the 901 Artist Cooperative and established Portside Artist Studios in 2009.
Katherine’s artwork is both personal and political. One of the driving forces behind her interdisciplinary art practice is her desire to better understand the ways in which
social conditioning has caused her thinking and behaviour to be incongruent with her values. As well as serving as a social critique, Katherine’s art work is a personal critique. Consequently, she often employs representational and/or metaphoric self-portraiture in her art. Coming from a ‘recovery’ perspective, Katherine holds the practice of not asking another person to go into emotionally, mentally, and psychically challenging places she is not willing to go herself. Implicating herself in her social critique, then, is necessary. Katherine shares her internal excavation discoveries and intra-personal discord in an effort to create an intimate and empathic connection with the viewer.
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