Big news (on my end), I am about to start a very exciting residency, here's the wee write up from The Guide by SCCA: Eumundi based interdisciplinary artist Katie Harris-MacLeod has been selected as the Natural Ecologies, Sunshine Coast artist in residence. Working at the intersection of art, science, and ecology Katie’s practice explores ecological intimacy through a poetic dialogue between body and landscape, informed by psychogeography, ecofeminist thought, and the symbiotic entanglements that shape life cycles. Working across performance, moving image, sound, and material processes, Katie will embark on a six-month residency with the support of the Creative Ecologies Research Cluster (CERC) at UniSC, Sippy Downs to develop Tree Ear (Sap Works), an interdisciplinary project that explores acoustic relationships within forest ecologies. Huge thanks to: @unisc.australia @scca_org @therefineryincubator R|Artist Residency: Natural Ecologies, Sunshine Coast is presented by SCCA through The Refinery in partnership with the Creative Ecologies Research Cluster at UniSC. Supported by Major Partners, Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, Sunshine Coast Council through the Regional Arts Development Fund. Image credit: @charmaine_lyons_photographer #treeear #biospshere #artresidency #naturalecologies #artscienceecology

A few snaps from my collaborations and experiments with the Queen River in Queenstown, plus the studio install/ clean-up. And that's a wrap, I suppose, for now... until I process all the film, eek! #waterisspeaking #extractiveindustries #ecologicalgrief #artandscience #copperverdigris

Some photos from the Open Studio event at @qbankgallery on Saturday. What a wild 3 weeks that was, thanks for having me Queenstown! (Photos 6 & 9 by @vonnfy) #waterisspeaking #extractiveindustries #ecologicalgrief #collaborationswiththeriver #bluemoon

Hello folks, I am having an 'Open Studio' event at @qbankgallery this Saturday, 3pm onwards. Come along to see what strange magic has emerged these past 3 weeks. #moonscape #artresidency #waterisspeaking #extractiveindustries #thinplace

The portal #extractiveindustries #ecologicalgrief #artresidency #moonscape #threshold

Kinda blown away by this place to be honest, woah! Thanks to the legends here who have taken me on wee adventures to see all the magic x

Making art in lutruwita is but a dream, surreal really, all the way fae bonnie Scotland to South East Queensland, and the many places in-between. Now I find myself making work somewhere so far away from what/ who is familiar and it yet it all seems strangely familiar; back on an island, somewhere pretty rural, next stop Antarctica (where I hope to go one day). When I lived on the Isle of Mull, I began to think about the concept of human made "moonscapes", how due to humanity's constant "extractive way of being" (Dr. Suzanne Simard), the land is left barren and bare. Though, I am aware these thoughts are deeply political, and are just observations. And yes, nature grows back, but that surely isn't the point, can't we just let her be? What are the rights of nature? What are the rights of women (/ all living beings)? Can't we all simply just exist, without the weight of purpose. Anyway, the usual existential ponderings emerging, it has been nice to have time to think more clearly about these questions, read about them, write about them, and make art about them. #extractiveindustries #(un)wellspring #island #artresidency #moonscape #waterisspeaking

Drawing, making, walking ft so many beautiful textures and colours. #waterisspeaking #extractiveindustries #riverdrawings #everythingisorange

Watery thoughts over the past few days: river drawings, a big cycle to the confluence; where the queen and the king river meet and mossy old forest beings grow, big skies, hundreds of black cockatoos and an excerpt from 'Is A River Alive?' by Robert Macfarlane. #waterisspeaking #extractiveindustries #riverdrawings #everythingisorange

water is speaking #moonscape/ dead river #extractiveindustries #ecologicalgrief #experiments

Big ol' walk up to the Iron Blow Lookout to ponder the wonders of nature vs human. Now to compartmentalise and put this feeling of deep ecological grief to use and make work about it. #moonscape/ dead river #ecologicalgrief #extractiveindustries #artresidency

Hiya folks, I'm in Queenstown, lutruwita/ Tasmania until the end of May doing an art residency at @qbankgallery - come and have a yarn if you're in town. Here's some info about my work and intentions for this residency: 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. During her residency at Q Bank Gallery in Queenstown, lutruwita/ Tasmania, MacLeod will develop a new body of site-responsive work examining the environmental legacy of copper mining. Responding to the Queen River—often described as a “dead river”—she will produce copper oxide inks from collected water samples and create large-scale works alongside a felt-based sculptural installation made from wool soaked in the river. These material processes will extend into performative actions across former mining sites, engaging directly with landscapes marked by extraction and ecological degradation. Through this work, MacLeod continues her inquiry into ecological grief and ecological intimacy, tracing the entanglement of body, industry, and place within regional contexts. #moonscape/dead river #extractiveindustries #ecologicalgrief #artresidency

Wee bit of wild walking over the weekend on Yuggera/ Githabul Country through ancient Gondwana Rainforest, to meet the 'Steamers' ft a hell of a lot of Gympie Gympie and incredible bird sounds echoing across the range. #protectnativeforests #gondwanarainforest #bushbashing #thesteamers #gympiegympie

I'm getting ready and excited to head down to @qbankgallery in lutruwita next week! Some recent photos of copper acetate (crystals viewed through a loupe), cyanotype and wool experiments in the studio, taken whilst procrastinating from packing. #ecologicalgrief/intimacy #extractiveindustries #psychogeography #ecofeminism #moonscape/dead river

Wallum walking on Kabi Kabi Country, sound on for spooky forest creatures this eve #biosphere #treeear #forestbeings #ecologicalintimacy

Love yer ginger guts Benny @bendraper32 - happy birthday beautiful human 🧡 (last pic by the gorgeous @stephanie_leo)

It's a peculiar thing to meet the tangible tree beings scribbled about in sketchbooks many moons before. Are you listening, listen listen. Words and scribbles from a time when my body decided to tap out and I couldn't hear properly for months, other than deep vibrational watery sounds, it's on the verge of doing the same at the moment so I am trying to listen this time. Photos taken kayaking with my love up the Noosa everglade system a few months back, Kabi Kabi Country. #treehollow #waterbody #biosphere #treeear #beings