Katie Anderson-Kelly
Master of Contemporary Practices in Art and Design
Katie Anderson-Kelly is a researcher and creative practitioner who is interested in people, art, and data. Data visualisation draws together these interests, and charts are an important tool that Katie uses to help her make sense of the world.
At heart, Katie views data visualisation as a mechanism for exploring change, contrast, and difference. This is expressed the work shown here through her visualisations of transformative events in her life – the death of her father, and the birth of her daughter.
Katie’s work is heavily influenced by data humanist and data feminist perspectives, which challenge traditional approaches to the collection, analysis, and display of data. Katie deliberately situates her work within the tension between quantitative and qualitative data by utilising the visual languages of quantification and aggregation to make visible a deeply personal individual experience.
Philip Agius, 15 years of grief, 2024, A death, a dot, a datapoint, 2024, #MyMatresenceProject,
2025, (installation view), dimensions variable.
Photographer: Brenton McGeachie