Artist statement

Katie Barbarie Stewart (1995, London) is a sculptor and visual artist based in the Northern Rivers, working across sculpture, site-responsive installation, and painting.

Graduate of the National Art School, Sydney (BFA Sculpture, 2019). Her practice begins in material encounter: imprints pressed into coastal rock, woven structures, bamboo built at festival scale; and extends into painting through Soak Spaces on Bundjalung Country, Lismore.

Stewart’s work develops a sustained enquiry into identity, ritual, and the Anthropocene. Ideas move between disciplines: thrown vessels in stone become prints in aluminium; community-built forms inform the figures gathered in her paintings: familiar, uncertain, held between companionship and reflection.

Sculpture

Award-winning work, international residencies, pieces entering permanent collection. Selected series below — more images added as the archive grows.

Selected works

Spilt Imprint

Sculpture by the Sea, 2019 · coastal rock and ceramic vessels · sponsored by Keane Ceramics · featured artist.

Spilt Imprint — ceramic vessels in coastal rock
Spilt Imprint — detail in stone
Spilt Imprint — installation
Spilt Imprint — coastal site

Aluminium series

Two Princes — embossed aluminium, 2023. More works and details to follow.

Two Princes — embossed aluminium sculpture
Two Princes — aluminium emboss sample
Aluminium series — embossed form

Sphere of Thought

Conceptual — Sculpture by the Sea application, 2026. More details to follow.

Sphere of Thought — conceptual sculpture
Sphere of Thought — process and development

Stone Age

Exploring negative space formed by erosion, movement, and force — ceramics, stone carving, and sand casting inverted into abstract form.

A Broken Saturn — stone and ceramic sculpture
Mineral Dressing — stone and ceramic
Mineral Dressing — detail
Crater — carved stone form
Stone Age — sand-cast ceramic study

Woven

Innovate: Situate Design Prize winner, Lismore Regional Gallery, 2018 — woven bamboo structure as community-built form.

Woven — bamboo installation, Lismore Regional Gallery
Woven — structure with artists for scale
Woven — construction on site
Woven — plan diagram
Woven — bamboo preparation
Process · film documentation available on enquiry

Residencies

  • Paris L’Air Arts & Atelier 11 — invited artist, 2025 · Camino de Santiago art research, Spain, 2025
  • China Tao Hua Tan International Residency, Anhui — A Young Embrace (permanent collection), 2023
  • Melbourne Melbourne Sculpture Society — Split Faces, 2023
  • Sydney Sculpture by the Sea, 2019 · Q Station Manly, 2023 · National Art School (BFA Sculpture, 2019)
  • Sail Britain Stornoway — marine ecology and painting, 2025
  • Elsewhere Panda Bamboo Project, Japan, 2024 · Auroville, India · Green School, Bali

Awards & recognition

  • Macquarie Art Prize Emerging artist award — Fisherman series, 2020
  • Innovate: Situate Design Prize Winner — Woven, Lismore Regional Gallery, 2018
  • Sculpture by the Sea Featured artist — Spilt Imprint, 2019
  • Jardins d’Étretat Sculpture Prize Sub-finalist, Normandy, 2025