Contemporary fine artist based in North East Scotland
Kate
Steenhauer
Featured Work
Painting Music
Live Production
In the Bell
Live Production
Hedda
Live Production
announcements
On the runway
selected for
Trinity Buoy Drawing Prize
Come and view the work @Trinity Buoy Wharf London 9-21 October 2025
Current and Upcoming Events
Painting Music is Touring
March 2025 – March 2026
PAINTING MUSIC is a company comprised of artist & filmmaker Kate Steenhauer and artificial intelligence (AI) developers Dr Starkey and Jack Caven. The team explores how cutting-edge AI techniques can facilitate multifaceted relationships between music and visual art.
PAINTING MUSIC is on tour funded by Creative Scotland, with a brand new demo package based on live performances, audience interactive Apps, Art-STEM Cross-Over Workshops, and talks, for community outreach programmes, Science Festivals, Galleries, Museums, Healthcare Providers, creative, tech & educational platforms (such as schools).
Aberdeen Art Fair - Scotland: Drag and Drams
Aberdeen Music Hall
29th – 31st August 2025
…’Bustling, loud and dirty – Scotland’s industrial spaces are fascinating to observe!
These industrial spaces have always held a fascination for artist Kate Steenhauer. Born and raised in The Netherlands, Steenhauer has a background in engineering. She came to Scotland over a decade ago and since then she has developed as a visual artist and filmmaker.
Steenhauer has built a record of life behind Scottish heritage, industries and landmarks’…. [Historic Environment Scotland]
Scotland: Drag and Drams is the focus at AAF’. Also The Landscape of Intelligence will be launched at this event.
Launch of The landscape of Intelligence
2024 – 2025
A Multi-Media Exhibit Tributing Ada Lovelace
The Landscape of Intelligence is a multi-media exhibit based on a limited-edition hand-made artist book with sound and video, and artwork that pays tribute to computer pioneer Ada Lovelace.
Nearly 200 hundred years ago, and a century before the invention of the computer, Ada explicitly describes a machine that could compose music.
Funded by Creative Scotland & Aberdeen City Council Creative Awards & Aberdeen Events in partnership with Explorathon.
Multi-media Exhibit at Macrobert Arts Centre
Stirling
Sep 2025 – Sep 2026
Using Explainable AI techniques, PAInting Music demonstrates the interplay between music and visual art while sparking discussions about pressing topics such as bias in AI and the role of women in tech. This thought-provoking audience-interactive exhibition tributes Ada Lovelace, and is designed to inspire conversation on AI limitations and impact on our society.
The short film The Landscape of Intelligence that tributes Ada lovelace is also on show.
Supporting Birth Parents off to Scottish Parliament
2024 – 2025
Commissioned by the Corra Foundation and NHS Grampian Public Health Directorate.
In line with the ambitions of The Promise this film was created to capture the lived experience of birth parents who have lost care of their children, in
The Promise
Women in Tech Aberdeen presents: A Tribute to Ada Lovelace Through Art and AI
Aberdeen
October 2025
Using AI techniques, PAInting Music demonstrates the interplay between music and visual art while sparking discussions about pressing topics such as bias in AI and the role of women in tech. This thought-provoking evening is designed to inspire, educate and celebrate the achievements of women in technology, both past and present.
Projects In Depth
Latest Productions
The Landscape of Intelligence – a Multi-Media Exhibit
The Landscape of Intelligence - a Multi-Media Exhibit The Landscape of Intelligence is a multi-media exhibit based on a limited-edition hand-made artist book with sound and video, and artwork that pays tribute to computer pioneer Ada Lovelace, created by Visual...
Tatties & typhoid ham
Tatties and Typhoid Ham is a fusion of live evolving visual art, music, poetry and spoken word, wherein three women born and bred in Aberdeen share their thoughts and experiences on being in lockdown during the typhoid outbreak in 1964 and their concurrent situation during the 2020 Coronavirus outbreak.
The making of a feminist
The making of a feminist is inspired by the complex entanglement of human and computer 'intelligence' in a time of crisis, in collaboration with Improviser Maria Sappho and Prof. Dubravka Pokrajac based at the University of Aberdeen. ’Invisible Women’, a book by...