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                    Katie Sfetkidis

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                    Colourful hand-drawn posters mounted on a wall, illustrated with feminist images and messages
                    Katie Sfetkidis is a Melbourne based artist, experienced in creating temporary public artworks and performance.

                    ​Katie’s practice takes an interest in the notion of the institution and the role art can play within them. Often research led, her practice is influenced by an intersectional feminist perspective. She is particularly interested in how women and gender diverse people are represented in public life. 

                    Currently Katie is the Feminist Emissary for the Queen Victoria Women’s Centre where she is compiling the Womxn’s COVID-19 Archive

                    Her notable temporary public works include The Mayor project (2018), Dear Minister (2019). She was also part of Mars Gallery’s Melbourne Central Art Loop (2016).  

                    Alongside her public works, Katie has also presented in more conventional spaces including galleries: Kings ARI, Trocadero Artspace and Blindside, 4A Contemporary and as part of a number of festivals including Festival of Live Art, Underbelly Arts Festival, Under the Radar – Brisbane Festival and Melbourne Fringe.  Katie also performed in The Feminist Colour-In curated by Kim Donaldson and Katve-Kaisa Konturrai as part of ACCA’s Unfinished Business: Perspectives on Art and Feminism.

                    The Feminist Poster Project

                    The Feminist Poster Project is a multifaceted public artwork that turns the artist’s hand drawn posters into large scale public artworks for billboards, posters, building sites, digital screens and mobile advertising. 

                    Speaking directly to the activist zeitgeist of today’s political climate, the project proposes a large-scale take-over of traditional advertising space, re-imagining these corporate spaces as sites for political conversation.

                    Inspired by political posters, particularly those of the women’s movement, this work is a visualisation of the feminist manifesto Feminism for the 99% by Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, Nancy Fraser. 

                    Bringing the personal to this political act, each poster is hand drawn by the artist and draws inspiration from international feminist figures and women protesters from around the world. These works are both a call to arms and a celebration of the public actions taken by women across the globe in search for a more equitable future. 

                    These works both celebrate public action and are themselves part of a broader public intervention of feminist ideas into a public space. They directly confront the role of women’s voices within public discourse and play with the slippages between commercial and public space that exist in our contemporary metropolitan landscape. 

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