Independent Artist-Researcher
Biography
Dr Katie Hart Potapoff (she/her), is a Canadian artist-researcher based in Dundee, Scotland. Her practice research traverses both the materials that comprise our landscape and the materials that provoke the thinking and making responses of the artist. She is curious about the reflexive and attentive perspectives that emerge when elements of poetry, visual art, and scholarly writing are constellated with place-based responses
Katie holds a Practice Research PhD, from the University of Dundee, for her project titled ‘Materials of the Foreshore: Explicit Ambiguity as a Methodology for Place-Based Arts Research’. This reflexive practice exploration produced a methodology for artist-academics that utilised the foreshore as an analogy for the intense shifts in both the climate and our human responses within it.
She also completed Postgraduate studies in Educational Research at the University of Calgary with specialisations in Advancing Socially Just Schools & Communities (2018) and Design Thinking for Innovation (2017).
Katie has exhibited artwork and presented research through various symposia, publications, residencies, and collaborative projects in the US, Canada, Ireland, Finland, and the UK. Her research projects have been funded by the Henry Moore Foundation, Canada Council for the Arts, and Arts Society Fife
Selected publications
Potapoff, Katie Hart, ‘of the foreshore’ in Consilience Journal, Change, issue 20, 2025.
Potapoff, Katie Hart, ‘Gathering [Below The] Surface’ in Transpositions: Online Journal of the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts, 2 January 2024.
Potapoff, Katie Hart, ‘In the Crook of My Elbow’ in Open Rivers: Rethinking Water, Place & Community, Rivers and Meaning, no. 20, 2021.
