Katrina is an Australian artist based in London. Her research fixates on questioning the representation of photography, and it’s meaning as object and collective form. She is interested in consumption, and making connections between food and images; their digestion and representation, source and distribution, and entwining as daily process. Katrina’s work manifests through her making process. Working with or without a camera, she utilises found or expired paper stocks, practices hand printing and retouching, facilitates chemigrams, works with metal and bookbinding, and builds pinhole cameras (placing them covertly in public). Found material is often her starting point, and can range from objects, X-rays, 16mm film and food waste, to discarded photographic materials and negatives found at commercial labs in London.
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Katrina Stamatopoulos, My Barium Meal (2021), hand c-type prints, collage with hand c-type test prints, BW hand prints on Ilford paper, expired Bromide paper, expired Harman positive paper BW photograms on Oriental expired paper. Image Courtesy of the artist.
Katrina Stamatopoulos, Droppings (2022), unique c-type handprints, made from photographic negative off-cuts on 10” expired Kodak endura paper. Image Courtesy of the artist.
Katrina Stamatopoulos, Meatheads (2020), unique black and white hand prints made with emulsion-coated etching paper. Image Courtesy of the artist.
Katrina Stamatopoulos, Defender (2024), unique ctype hand prints, hoisted with steel. Image Courtesy of the artist.