As an illustration practitioner, Katie sees herself primarily as an image-maker with a focus on visual narrative and has worked as a freelance art workshop facilitator in community arts for many years. She has exhibited work nationally and held the position of Artist in Residence with Scotland’s Early Literature for Children Initiative (SELCIE).
Katie is concerned with skills sharing and facilitation as a method of workshop-based teaching in the visual arts. She teaches across all year groups, with a primary focus on Postgraduate students in her current role as ACL for MA illustration. Katie is also currently on supervision teams for PhD and Mres students.
Research interests are practice-based and concern narrative, visual storytelling, and folk- and fairy tales. Doctoral research concerned picture books as a mode of intercultural communication and made use of tactile qualities of printmaking and bookbinding.
I am open to discussion on possible PhD proposals.
Currently supervising PhD student Ed Barret “History through Illustration“.