Katie Harris-MacLeod is a Scottish-Australian interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of art, science, and ecology. 

MacLeod’s work is deeply connected to nature, the psychogeography of place, Ecofeminist thought and the symbiotic entanglements experienced throughout the life cycle. Nuances of folklore, multiple generational narratives, femininity, loss and isolation are all present within her work. These provocations emerge through a poetic dialogue between body and landscape - an exchange enacted through performance, materiality, and what she calls a practice of the wild. Her work explores the fluid edges of belonging, tracing a transitory relationship to place and self. 

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 time at DJCAD, she was awarded a bursary for the Erasmus Exchange Programme at École européenne supérieure d'art de Bretagne (EESAB) in Quimper, France. While on exchange, her work was exhibited as part of the Bilan exhibition at EESAB, and she facilitated workshops in local primary schools throughout the region.

Following her graduation, MacLeod was awarded a mentorship and residency placement on the Muir is Tìr | Land and Sea sailing residency, funded by SAIL BRITAIN and AN LANNTAIR. As part of this program, she and a group of artists sailed across the Minch, creating site-responsive works and delivering artist talks to rural Hebridean communities.

MacLeod has lived and worked across the Hebrides of Scotland and the rural Highlands of Argyll, each landscape and its people becoming a palimpsest of memory and time. She has exhibited throughout Europe and Australia and, has been granted a wide variety of international study tours and residencies across Scotland, Ireland, France, and most recently, the ecologically diverse landscape of South East Queensland, Australia, where she is now based. 

Since the end of 2019, MacLeod has lived and worked on Kabi Kabi Country/ the Sunshine Coast, she has exhibited and collaborated with artists extensively across the region, and has now been awarded the ‘Overall Winner’ for the 40 Under 40 Exhibition and Art Prize 2026. The prize money will support her upcoming residency at Q Bank Gallery in Lutruwita/ Tasmania this May.

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