About

Katie Parker is a British multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture and installation. Her work centres on systems of power, control, containment, and persuasion, particularly in relation to gender, labour, beauty, and consumer culture.

After completing a BA (Hons) in Fine Art, Parker found traditional pathways into the arts financially and structurally inaccessible as a working-class artist. While continuing to create work independently, she built a career within fashion and digital commerce, working closely with systems of consumer behaviour, algorithmic influence, and behavioural optimisation.

This experience became central to her work, deepening her interest in the ways power operates through aspiration, repetition, coercion, and spectacle. Her sculptures and installations show how social and economic structures shape bodies and identities through seduction as much as force.

Working primarily with feminine-coded forms and materials, Parker creates sculptures and installations that juxtapose power with fragility, humour with violence, and attraction with unease. Her work is rooted in questions of agency, access, inevitability, and the invisible systems that govern everyday life.