About Kate

Meet the Artist

I am a Visual Artist and Filmmaker based in the Northeast of Scotland. I was born and raised in The Netherlands, where I played competitive tennis in my youth. I came to Scotland to do a PhD in Coastal Engineering. I have always been passionate about drawing and after my degree I received private tuition from several well-established artists.

I tell stories through live evolving painting, spoken word, and musical composition. I combine (live) fine art with moving image techniques. This moves visual art as a traditionally static experience into a dynamic interactive artform that is temporal, transient, and transformational.

I work collaboratively with dance, music, photography, spoken word and Artificial Intelligence.

These multi-disciplinary productions can be viewed through the mediums of theatre, film, (live) audio-visual installation, podcasts, and artwork; and offer a unique multifaceted experience.

I collaborate with academic, artistic & multi-media platforms to generate socially engaged and impactful content.

My focus on process as practice is towards transparency in the act of collaborative creation, and on elevating real-life stories that hold vulnerabilities and celebrate defiant resistance.

2025 -2026 Multi-Media Exhibit, MacRoberts Arts Centre

2025 Multi-Media Exhibit, Women in Tech, Aberdeen

2024 Scottish AI Summit BoardWalk, Exploring the Potential of Creative AI, Scottish AI Alliance

2023 Multi-Media Exhibit, Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh

2023 The Compass Gallery, Glasgow

2022 Connected Innovators’ Showcase, Creative Informatics, Fine Art Studios, Edinburgh College of Art

2022 Tatties & Typhoid Ham, Aberdeen University Hame Festival

2021 In the bell (Multimedia Exhibit), Four pillars, Aberdeen UK

2020 Whisky, Whisky, The Bute Gallery, Isle of Bute, UK

2020 In the Bell, No Labels No Walls 2020 – an International Festival of art and culture on equality issues

2020, 2019 Painting Music (Multi-Media Exhibit), AI Specialist Dr. Starkey, Haddo Arts Festival, Belmont Filmhouse, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Visual Arts Scotland

2020 Eion Stewart Fine Art Gallery, Stonehaven, UK

2019 – 2020 Duff House, Historic Environment Scotland and National Galleries of Scotland (Multi-Media Exhibit), Banff, UK

2019 Painting Music (Multi-Media Exhibit), AI Specialist Dr. Starkey, Haddo Arts Festival and Belmont Filmhouse

2019 The Shelter (Cinema screening & Panel Member of ‘Drawing in the World’), Hayward Gallery Touring Exhibition Hand Drawn, Action Packed at Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow

2019 Hedda & The Shelter (Cinema Screenings), Sound Thought CCA Glasgow, Shane Strachan, Ross Whyte

2018 Just a Bairn (Projection), Aberdeen Artists’ Society, Haddo House and Country Park, Writer Shane Strachan

2018 The Shelter (Projection), SPECTRA, Aberdeen Festival of Light, commissioned by Curated Place

2017 Scotland: Darg and Drams, Meffan Museum and Art Gallery, Forfar, UK

2017 Whisky Galore – the Water of Life, Eion Stewart Fine Art Gallery, Stonehaven, UK

2016 Scotland: Darg and Drams, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy

2016 Aberdeen Airport in collaboration with Heinzel Gallery, Aberdeen, UK

2015 When the boat comes in, Grampian Hospital Arts Trust, Aberdeen, UK

2025 Aberdeen Art Fair

2025 – 2026 Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize

2025 Festival of Creative AI, UVA Farnham

2025, 2023, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2011, Royal Scottish Academy Exhibition, RSA, Edinburgh, UK

2024 University of Aberdeen Interdisciplinary Research and Innovation Symposium

2024, 2023, 2021, 2020, 2016, 2015, 2012 Annual Exhibition of Visual Arts Scotland, RSA, Edinburgh, UK

2022, Beyond Conference, Cardiff, UK

2022, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, Aberdeen Artists’ Society, Aberdeen Art Gallery, UK

2021 Analix Forever Gallery, Geneva

2021 Temporal Drawing, Drawn to time, Drawing Research Network

2021 Scottish Drawing Competition, Paisley Art Institute

2021, 2016 Annual Exhibition of the Society of Scottish Artists, RSA, Edinburgh, UK

2020, 2019, Eion Stewart Fine Art Gallery, Exhibition, Stonehaven, UK

2019, 2016, 2015 Winter exhibition, Meffan Museum and Art Gallery, Forfar, UK

2019, 2018 Aberdeen Artists’ Society, Haddo House, UK

2018, 2017, 2016 Macmillan Art Show, Bonham Auction House, Edinburgh Fringe, UK

2017, 2016 Royal Glasgow Institute of The Fine Arts Annual Exhibition, the Mitchell Glasgow, UK

2017 Artist represented by Mall Galleries, London, UK

2017, 2015, 2014 Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition, the Mall Galleries, London, UK

2017, 2015 Annual Exhibition, New English Art Club, the Mall Galleries, London, UK

2016 The Masters, Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, Bankside Gallery, London, UK

2016 Neo:Printprize, Bolton, UK

2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, Shortlisted, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, UK

2015 National Open Art 2015 Competition, Royal College of Art, London, UK

2015 3-Man Show, Heinzel Gallery, Aberdeen, UK

2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, Aberdeen Artists’ Society 81st Annual Exhibition, Aberdeen Art Gallery, UK

2014 Edinburgh Art Fair, Edinburgh Corn Exchange, UK

2025 Creative Scotland, Open Project Funding, PAInting Music

2024 Aberdeen Creative Funding Award

2024 Aberdeen University Subaward Agreement – A creative engagement approach to improve the impact of healthcare modelling

2023 Creative AI Music and Audio Pilot Project funding, Creative Edinburgh and Creative Informatics Award

2023 Resident Entrepreneur, Creative Edinburgh and Creative Informatics Award, Painting Music

2023 Creative Scotland, Open Project Funding, The landscape of Intelligence, tribute to Ada Lovelace

2022 Film & Video Award, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen Artist Society

2022 Creative Scotland, Open Project Funding Tatties & Typhoid Ham (Film)

2021 Connected Innovators’ Creative Edinburgh and Creative Informatics Award, Painting Music

2021 Aberdeen City Council Creative Funding Award, In the bell with Composer Maria Sappho

2021 Make Do & Mend Residency, Stellar Quines and Bijli Productions, with Composer Maria Sappho

2020, 2017, 2012 Aberdeen City Visual Artist Award

2019 Aberdeen City Council Creative Funding Award, Painting Music (Film) with AI Specialist Dr. Starkey

2019 Creative Scotland, Open Project Funding, Painting Music (Live show) with AI Specialist Dr. Starkey

2019 Just Start Here, National Theatre of Scotland, The Shelter, Writer Shane Strachan & Composer Ross Whyte

2018 Haddo House Installation Arts Prize, Aberdeen Artists’ Society, The Shelter, Writer Shane Strachan

2018 Creative Scotland, Open Project Funding, Hedda, Choreographer Imogene Newland & Sound artist Jun Kim

2018 Aberdeen Performing Arts, Freshly Squeezed Productions, Collaboration with Creative Writer Shane Strachan

2017 CityMoves Dancy Residency Programme with Dancer/ Choreographer Imogene Newland

2017 One Day to Play, National Theatre of Scotland

2016 Visiting Guest Artist Full Fellowship, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice & Murano, Italy

2015 Meffan Museum and Gallery, The Colin Dakers Memorial Purchase Prize

2014 Royal Scottish Academy Latimer Award

Multiple works held in permanent public collections of Aberdeen Maritime Museum and Angus Council

2024 Supporting Birth Parents, Film Commission Corra Foundation and NHS Grampian Public Health Directorate

2018 – 2024 Painting Music collaboration Engineering Consultancy Blueflow & AI Specialist Dr. Starkey

2017 Opera Holland Park, Collaboration with acclaimed conductor Matthew Kofi Waldren, London

2016 Masters of Glassblowing, Scuola Del Vetro (School of Glass), Murano, Italy

2016 Folk at Fringe & Thainstone Mart developed under Visiting Guest Artist Full Fellowship Award, Venice, Italy

2016 Knockando Woolmill in collaboration with Knockando Woolmill Trust

2015 – 2016 Speyside Cooperage in collaboration with Speyside Cooperage

2015 Aberdeen Heliport with world’s largest Helicopter Service Company, Canadian Holding Company

2014 Shipyards of Aberdeen in collaboration with Naval Architect and Marine Consultancy Tymor Marine

2026 Live Performance & Talk PAInting Music, Stirling University Art Centre

2025 The Flames, TrickyHat productions, Aberdeen Performaing Arts

2025 Live performance PAInting Music, Edinburgh Futures Institute in collaboration with poet Kathleen Jamie

2025 Live performance PAInting Music, The European Chatbot & Conversational AI Summit, Edinburgh

2025 Live Performance PAInting Music, Women in Tech, Aberdeen

2024 Scottish AI Summit BoardWalk, Exploring the Potential of Creative AI, Scottish AI Alliance

2023 In & Out of this world (Live Performance), Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh

2021 In the bell, (Live Performance) Four pillars, Aberdeen UK

2019 The Player Piano (Live Performance), Composer Ross Whyte, Edinburgh Summerhall

2019 The Player Piano (Live Performance), Composer Ross Whyte, Duff House Historic Environment Scotland Study Days

2019 Painting Music (Live Performance), AI Engineering Specialist Dr. Starkey, Aberdeen University May Festival

2019 The Shelter (Live Performance), Just Start Here Festival, The Anatomy Rooms, National Theatre Scotland.

2018 Hedda (Live Performamce), Choreographer Newland, Sound artist Jun Kim, Aberdeen University May Festival

2018 The Shelter (Live Performance), Aberdeen Performing Arts, The Lemon Tree

2017 The Shelter (Performance Scene 1), One Day to Play National Theatre of Scotland, The Lemon Tree

2025 Edinburgh Futures Institute & Kathleen Jamie

2025 Chatbot Europe Conference

2024 Scottish AI Summit Dynamic Earth & BoardWalk, Exploring the Potential of Creative AI, Scottish AI Alliance

2023 Platform Glasgow, Exploring the Potential of Creative AI, Creative Informatics

2023 Dundee Contemporary Arts, Exploring the Potential of Creative AI, Creative Informatics

2021 Using Artificial intelligence to create music from live painted drawings, Ars Electronica, Austria (online)

2020 Panellist and interviews  Painting Music, Friday Forum Visual Arts Scotland

2019 Double Dutch or a ‘Lecture on Drawing’, Duff House Study Days, Historic Environment Scotland

2019 Panel member of ‘Drawing in the world’, Hayward Gallery Touring Exhibition Hand Drawn, Action Packed at Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow

2018 Creative-Me-Podcast Interview: Kate Steenhauer and Shane Strachan The Shelter

2018 Spectra Aberdeen Interview: Festival of Light

2018 Artists Engaging Aberdeen, Spectra Conference Panel and Presentation

2018 Creative Learning, Aberdeen City Council, Workshop and Talk on Artist Collaboration

2015 Janice Forsyth Show BBC Radio Scotland