Katie Hart Potapoff (she/her), a fourth-generation Canadian settler, is an artist, writer, and researcher in Scotland. Through iterative material and place-based encounters, Katie employs methods comprised of what she describes as explicit ambiguity, which provides an intimate and attentive lens through which to consider sited practice. In the context of her practice research, Katie is interested in the speculative nature of ambiguity, which is performed not as a provocation but as an invitation to reconsider human relationships with our more-than-human-kin.
Katie is currently a Doctoral Candidate at DJCAD, University of Dundee, completing her practice-led PhD, Materials of the Foreshore: Explicit Ambiguity as a Methodology for Place-Based Arts Research. She received her MFA with Merit from DJCAD, and her BFA from the University of British Columbia Okanagan. Katie has also completed post-graduate studies in Educational Research at the University of Calgary both on Advancing Socially Just Schools and Communities and Design Thinking.
Katie has worked as an assistant curator and research assistant on various collaborative projects in both Canada and the UK, and her arts research has received funding from Canada Council for the Arts.
