Contemporary fine artist based in North East Scotland
Kate
Steenhauer
Featured Work
Painting Music
Live Production
In the Bell
Live Production
Hedda
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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
Climbing on Lyme
March 2026 – March 2027
Climbing on Lyme is a body of multi-media work exploring women’s lived experiences of chronic health conditions, created in collaboration with clinical academics.
Rooted in a shared commitment to centring lived experience as a catalyst for change, the project examines diagnostic uncertainty, lack of recognition, and the need for more compassionate, equitable care. For many women, the struggle to be believed remains a defining barrier.
Funded by Creative Scotland with project partners Aberdeen City Health Determinants Research Collaborative and multiple clinical academics, who collectively bring expertise in obstetrics, rheumatology, gynaecology, and urogynaecology
Tribute to Ada Lovelace - Artist Booklet
Launch of Artist Booklet
The Landscape of Intelligence is a multi-media artwork born from Painting Music, an AI–art collaboration that honours the imagination and legacy of the Victorian mathematician and computer pioneer Ada Lovelace.
This booklet binds together multi-layered prints drawn from sketches of machinery, punch cards, neural networks, and quotes by Ada and her mother, Annabella Byron. These elements are created through lithographic printing, forming a tactile, multi-dimensional record of Ada’s world and the ideas that shaped it.
Painting Music is Touring
March 2025 – December 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).
Works on Paper: Art and Energy
Aberdeen Art Gallery
23rd Mar 2026- 14th Mar 2027
…’From pylons to wind turbines, we live in a world where we are never far away from the monumental infrastructure of the energy industry. This selection of drawings, prints and photographs from the collection explores how artists from the 1970s to the present day have chosen to creatively engage with these physical markers. Work by Sue Jane Taylor, George Mackie, Kate Steenhauer, Donald Addison, Tony Clayden and Fay Godwin will be shown alongside a new commission by Kate Downie RSA.
Art and Energy is the second in a series of annual displays highlighting the depth and diversity of Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums’ collection of works on paper. ‘…. [Aberdeen Art Gallery]
The landscape of Intelligence
Stirling University Pathfoot Gallery
Sep 2025 – Sep 2026
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 University Pathfoot Gallery
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
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
Climbing on Lyme
Climbing on Lyme is a body of multi-media work exploring women’s lived experiences of chronic health conditions, created in collaboration with clinical academics. Rooted in a shared commitment to centring lived experience as a catalyst for change, the project examines...
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.