Contemporary fine artist based in North East Scotland

Kate
Steenhauer

Featured Work

painting music

Painting Music

Live Production

In the bell

In the Bell

Live Production

Hedda

Hedda

Live Production

announcements

On the Runway

On the Runway captures the fashion industry through drawings, models’ voices, music, and highly detailed imagery of Dame Zandra Rhodes‘ bold prints and colourful patterns from the exhibition 50 Years of Fabulous.

Current and Upcoming Events

Painting Music Production Launch

22 Nov 2024– 22 Dec 2025

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 has just completed a mini-tour with Scottish AI Alliance and has launched 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).

Supporting Birth Parents to Scottish Parliament

2024 – 2025

Commissioned by the Corra Foundation and NHS Grampian Public Health Directorate.

In line with the ambitions of #ThePromise this film was created to capture the lived experience of birth parents who have lost care of their children, in order to better understand their support needs and help inform future service delivery.

#ThePromise Scotland is responsible for driving the work of change in care experienced infants, children, young people, adults and their families – that every child grows up loved, safe and respected, and able to realise their full potential.

The landscape of Intelligence

2024 – 2025

The Landscape of Intelligence is a limited-edition hand-made artist book with audio-visual display that pays tribute to computer pioneer Ada Lovelace. The book binds together a set of multi-layered prints based on drawings of machinery, punch cards, neural networks and quotes from Ada and her mother Annabella Byron, using etching and screen-printing. The book highlighting Ada’s vision about ‘a computer making music’.

Projects In Depth

Latest Productions

Tatties & typhoid ham

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.

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The making of a feminist

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...

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The player piano

The player piano

The Player Piano draws inspiration from perforated piano rolls used in old pianolas. Sequential rolls of paper at the keyboard flows and rolls out gradually whilst Composer Ross Whyte performs and Visual Artist Kate Steenhauer draws, creating a dialogue which consists...

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