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.

2023 ‘ On the runway’, Comnpass Gallery Glasgow
2022, Connected Innovators’ Showcase, Creative Informatics, Fine Art Studios, Edinburgh College of Art
2020 Whisky, Whisky, The Bute Gallery, Isle of Bute, UK
2020 Eion Stewart Fine Art Gallery, Stonehaven, UK
2019 – 2020 Duff House, Historic Environment Scotland and National Galleries of Scotland, Banff, UK
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

2023 Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK
2022 Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK
2022, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen Artists’ Society Annual Exhibition
2022 Visual Arts Scotland, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK (online)
2021 Annual Exhibition of the Society of Scottish Artists, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK
2021 Scottish Drawing Competition, Paisley Art Institute
2021 Analix Forever Gallery, Geneva
2021 Making of a feminist, Temporal Drawing, Drawn to time, Drawing Research Network
2020, Visual Arts Scotland, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK (online)
2020 Eion Stewart Fine Art Gallery, Stonehaven, UK
2019 Eion Stewart Fine Art Gallery, Printmaking Show, Stonehaven, UK
2018 Macmillan Art Show, Bonham Auction House, Edinburgh Fringe, UK
2018 Aberdeen Artists Society, Haddo House, UK
2017 Royal Glasgow Institute of The Fine Arts Annual Exhibition, the Mitchell Glasgow, UK
2017 Artist is represented by the Mall Galleries, London, UK
2017 Macmillan Art Show, Bonham Auction House, Edinburgh Fringe, UK
2017 Annual Exhibition, New English Art Club, the Mall Galleries, London, UK
2017 Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition, the Mall Galleries, London, UK
2016 Visual Arts Scotland, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK
2016 Winter exhibition, Meffan Museum and Art Gallery, Forfar, UK
2016 The Masters, Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
2016 Royal Glasgow Institute of The Fine Arts Annual Exhibition, the Mitchell Glasgow, UK
2016 119th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Scottish Artists, RSA, Edinburgh, UK
2016 Mixed Exhibition, Newave Gallery, Aberdeen, UK
2016 Neo:Printprize, Bolton, UK
2016 Capture Scotland, Arts Stop, Edinburgh Fringe, UK
2016 Macmillan Art Show, Bonham Auction House, Edinburgh Fringe, UK
2016 Royal Scottish Academy Exhibition, the Mound, Edinburgh, UK
2016 Stuffed Gallery, Newave Gallery, Aberdeen, UK
2015 National Open Art 2015 Competition, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2015 Winter show, Gallery at 55, Stonehaven, UK
2015 Winter exhibition, Meffan Museum and Art Gallery, Forfar, UK
2015 3-Man Show , Heinzel Gallery, Aberdeen, UK
2015 Annual Exhibition, New English Art Club, the Mall Galleries, London, UK
2015 Aberdeen Artists Society 81stAnnual Exhibition, Suttie Arts Space at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, UK
2015 Markmaking, SMART Consultants Exhibition, Aberdeen, UK
2015 Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition, the Mall Galleries, London, UK
2015 Visual Arts Scotland, the Mound, Edinburgh, UK
2015 Royal Scottish Academy Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK
2015 Shortlisted, Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition 2015, London, UK
2014 Winter show, GalleryTen, West End, Edinburgh, UK
2014 Edinburgh Art Fair, Edinburgh Corn Exchange, November, UK
2014 Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition, the Mall Galleries, London, UK
2014 Aberdeen Artists Society Annual Exhibition, Aberdeen Art Gallery, UK
2014 Royal Scottish Academy Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK
2014 Shortlisted, Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition 2014, London, UK
2013 Derwent Art Prize, Mall Galleries, London, UK
2013 Royal Scottish Academy Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK
2013 Aberdeen Artists Society Annual Exhibition, Aberdeen Art Gallery, UK
2013 Shortlisted, Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition 2013, London, UK
2012 BITE, the Mall Galleries, London, UK
2012 Visual Arts Scotland, the Mound, Edinburgh, UK
2012 Aberdeen Artists Society Annual Exhibition, Aberdeen Art Gallery, UK
2012 Shortlisted, Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition 2012, London, UK
2011 Scottish Drawing Competition, Paisley Art Institute, UK
2011 Royal Scottish Academy Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK
2011 Aberdeen Artists Society 77th Annual Exhibition, Aberdeen Art Gallery, UK
2010 Aberdeen Artists Society 76th Annual Exhibition, Aberdeen Art Gallery, UK

2023 Entrepeneur Residency Creative Edinburgh and Creative Informatics Award, Painting Music
2022 Film & Video Award, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen Artist Society
2021 Connected Innovators’ Creative Edinburgh and Creative Informatics Award, Painting Music
2021 Make Do & Mend Residency, Stellar Quines and Bijli Productions, In the bell with Composer Maria Sappho
2021 Aberdeen City Council Creative Funding Award, In the bell 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, P ai nting 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

2018 – 2022 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

2020 In the Bell, No Labels No Walls 2020 – an International Festival of art and culture on equality issues
2020, 2019 Painting Music (Film), AI Specialist Dr. Starkey, Ars Electronica Austria, Haddo Arts festival, and Visual Arts Scotland
2019 The Player Piano (Live Show), Composer Ross Whyte, Edinburgh Summerhall
2019 The Player Piano (Live Show), Composer Ross Whyte, Duff House Historic Environment Scotland Study Days
2019 Painting Music (Live Show), AI Engineering Specialist Dr. Starkey, Aberdeen University May Festival
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 The Shelter (Live Show), Just Start Here Festival, The Anatomy Rooms, National Theatre Scotland.
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 Hedda (Live Show), Choreographer Newland, Sound artist Jun Kim, Aberdeen University May Festival
2018 The Shelter (Live Show), Aberdeen Performing Arts, The Lemon Tree
2018 The Shelter (Projection), SPECTRA, Aberdeen Festival of Light, commissioned by Curated Place
2017 The Shelter (Performance Scene 1), One Day to Play National Theatre of Scotland, The Lemon Tree

2021Using 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