Inspired by her studies in Architecture, Katie Hepworth is concerned with the reinterpretation of and engagement with urban space: moving beyond just buildings, her work addresses the realms of the public and private and their personal and political manifestations. Working across multiple disciplines including urban interventions, activism and urban research, she investigates the latent conditions in the urban environment.
Tending to work collaboratively, her art focuses on subtle, spatial interventions that disrupt everyday behaviours. In addition to interventions in urban and private spaces, her work has been shown in galleries and festivals internationally, including Sounds Unusual – NT Festival of New Music, NT, Australia, Electrofringe, Newcastle, Australia; transmediale, Berlin; Blank Space, Sydney; Diatribe Gallery, Melbourne; Ta(l)king Pleasure in the German Playground Conference, Sydney; Federation Square, Melbourne; Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney.
From 2006, - 2008 she was been the co-curator of the TRANSIT LOUNGE, a series of experimental, multi-disciplinary collaborative residencies for Australian and European artists and architects based in Berlin. The Transit Lounge was a partner event of the Transmediale, and was responsible for organising a series of talks on Australian art and architecture for the German Architecture Centre (DAZ).
She is currently completing her PhD in International Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney. Focusing on Milan, her work looks at the migration, citizenship and the city, with a particular focus on security, fear and the production of invisible borders within cities.
She is a member of arts gang boat-people.org
Contact: katie - at - katiehepworth.net
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