Katrina Sheena Smyth

Katrina Sheena Smyth


Katrina's artistic practice draws on esoteric belief systems, as a means to explore ways of decentring the ‘artist’, playing with flat ontological relations between language, image, sound and performance.  Her work attempts to find more ethical and collaboratively unexpected ways of making.  Her current research studies artistic processes and creative agency that resonate non-binary and non-representational methodologies for knowledge co-creation, inspired by Zen meditation practice and New Materialist theory. 

Biography
Katrina is an artist and Ph.D. candidate in Fine Art at Ulster University (2017-2020), a co-directing member of Ulster Research Salon; Art Research Matters (research/reading group) and a co-founding editor (2019) of Intersections, UU Postgraduate Research Journal.  Recent presentations of work include, Slow_listening, _moving, _being with academia, NMC19, Western Cape University, South Africa (2019); Escaping now, ICQI, University of Illinois, USA (2019); Capturing Schrödinger’s Cat, PGR Conference, Queens University, Belfast, NI (2018).  Her artworks have been exhibited at, CCA (Derry-Londonderry), BOUNCE Arts Festival (Belfast) LIVESTOCK (Dublin), R-Space Gallery (Lisburn), Shri Kali Ashram (Goa), ]Performance s p a c e [ (London), turn-berlin Gallery (Berlin).  Recent awards include: DfE Ph.D. Scholarship Award (2017-2020), ACNI General Arts Award (2016), Career Enhancement Programme; Golden Thread Gallery and Esmée Fairbairn Foundation (2015).

katrinasheenasmyth@gmail.com

www.katrinasheenasmyth.com