Katie Sfetkidis
Lighting Designer, Video Designer, Besen Family Artist
Katie Sfetkidis is a multidisciplinary artist living and working on lands of the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people. Her feminist practice is interested in exploring feminist and political histories and their impact on contemporary lives of women. Sfetkidis is keenly interested in exploring the role of the artist in public life and often working outside traditional art institutions, most notable public artworks include; Present/Memory: Women's COVID-19 Time Capsule (2020-2022); The Feminist Poster Project (2020-2021); Dear Minister (2019) and The Mayor Project (2018). She has also held solo exhibitions at: Kings Artist Run Initiative and Trocadero Art Space and participated in many group exhibitions, festivals and events including The Feminist Colour-In curated by Kim Donaldson and Katve-Kaisa Konturrai as part of ACCA’s Unfinished Business: Perspectives on Art and Feminism, Festival of Live Art, Underbelly Arts Festival Sydney, Under the Radar Brisbane Festival and Melbourne Fringe. In 2020 Katie was appointed the Feminist Emissary for the Queen Victoria Women’s Centre where she is created the Women's Covid-19 Time Capsule.
She was also a Besen Family Artist Program Placement in 2010 for Lighting Design (Furious Mattress).
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