Katie Harris-MacLeod is a Scottish-Australian interdisciplinary artist whose practice moves between art, ecology, and embodied forms of knowledge. Working across performance, material processes, and site-responsive installation, she engages with the porous boundaries between body, land, and memory.

MacLeod’s work is informed by ecofeminist thought and an ongoing attunement to the psychogeographies of place. Drawing on folklore, intergenerational narratives, and lived experience, her practice explores themes of femininity, loss, and isolation as they are inscribed across both human and more-than-human worlds. These concerns unfold through a poetic dialogue between body and landscape—an exchange she describes as a “practice of the wild”—where meaning is evoked through gesture, material encounter, and environmental responsiveness. Her work traces the fluid edges of belonging, holding space for transience, rupture, and re-connection.

MacLeod’s practice is grounded in embodied experience, investigating the intersections between personal trauma, ecological systems, and material transformation. Informed by lived experience of family violence, her work considers how patterns of domination enacted upon women and children are mirrored in the exploitation of the natural world. Through this lens, bodily and ecological violence are understood as interconnected forms of rupture, each leaving traces on bodies, landscapes, and collective memory.

MacLeod graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD), Dundee, Scotland, in 2017 with a BA (Hons) in Contemporary Art Practice. During her studies, she received a bursary for the Erasmus Exchange Programme at École européenne supérieure d'art de Bretagne (EESAB), Quimper, France, where her work was exhibited in the Bilan exhibition and she facilitated workshops in local primary schools.

Following graduation, she undertook a mentorship and residency on the Muir is Tìr | Land and Sea sailing residency, funded by SAIL BRITAIN and AN LANNTAIR. She sailed across the Minch with a cohort of artists, developing site-responsive work and delivering talks to rural Hebridean communities.

MacLeod has lived and worked across the Hebrides and the rural Highlands of Argyll, each landscape forming a palimpsest of memory and time. She has exhibited throughout Europe and Australia, and undertaken international study tours and residencies across Scotland, Ireland, France, and more recently South East Queensland, where she is now based.

Since late 2019, she has been living on Kabi Kabi Country (the Sunshine Coast), exhibiting and collaborating extensively across the region. She was awarded the Overall Winner of the 40 Under 40 Exhibition and Art Prize 2026, with the prize supporting her upcoming residency at Q Bank Gallery in lutruwita (Tasmania) this May.

Key words: Ecological grief/intimacy, Conceptual Art, Site-Specific, Interdisciplinary, Narrative, Culture, Folklore, Human memory in terrain, Psychogeography, Collaboration, Ecofeminism, Inter-woven, Land-Art, Activism, Performance, Language.