About

Katie Parker is a British sculptor and installation artist based in Margate, Kent. Her practice explores power, desire and control, examining how gender, consumer culture and social expectations shape our understanding of freedom and choice.

Holding a BA (Hons) in Fine Art, Parker comes from a working-class background and has built a career in fashion, technology and digital commerce alongside her artistic practice. Her firsthand experience of industries built around aspiration, consumption and behavioural influence informs her interest in how desire is constructed, how behaviour is shaped and how people come to participate in the systems that constrain them.

Working across materials including textiles, glass and metal, Parker transforms familiar domestic, feminine-coded and consumer objects through unexpected shifts in scale, material and function. Her sculptures and installations move between attraction and unease, humour and threat, often exposing contradictions between vulnerability and authority, protection and confinement.

Her work has been exhibited in the UK, including at Saatchi Gallery and the Royal Scottish Academy's 200th Annual Exhibition. She continues to develop ambitious sculptural and installation work from her studio in Margate.