Katie Hooper

Katie creates fabulous worlds for other people in fantasy and reality through her writing, artwork, and events. In 2021 she pitched and directed 'Visible Me' in collaboration with Feros Care. Katie empowered seniors by interviewing them and writing up snippets of their life story and taking artistic photographs of them. Katie won the Emerging Artist award at the 2016 Swell Sculpture Festival for her two oversize deckchairs; and in 2020 wrote and performed an emotional and intimate theatre piece with a group she coached on the subject of authenticity for the Placemakers team. Her decadent food centric still-life photographs were finalists in a British competition in 2020 and internationally published in a printed magazine. In 2021 her naively sewn cyanotype gown, 'Slowly Fading, Abundance' was a finalist at the Hornsby Art Show in Sydney. Katie spent several years in London apprenticing to a Haute Couture milliner making stunning head pieces. Bringing people together to create shared meaning drives much of Katie's creations. ​She believes in making the world a more colourful and happier place and is constantly looking for ways to brighten her little corner of the globe.