WORK IN PROGRESS SHOWING - Katie Harris-MacLeod

SCCA and UniSC invite you to attend the work-in-progress showing of Tree Ear by Sunshine Coast-based interdisciplinary artist Katie Harris-MacLeod.

Developed during her six-month Natural Ecologies, Sunshine Coast artist residency, Tree Ear explores acoustic relationships within forest ecologies.

Part tree, part ear, part technological apparatus, part archive, move between the sculptural sound installation and the immersive moving-image work using The Cave’s 320-degree visual display and spatialised sound.

Whilst the result does not attempt to reproduce the Everglades literally, it aims to create something stranger: a sonic body, somewhere between landscape, memory, listening and a rebellious reclamation of the ability to be present again.

Following the showing, Katie will sit down with Dr Leah Barclay offering insight into her creative process, working at the intersection of art, science, and natural ecologies.

Event Details

Date: Thursday, 12 November 2026
Time: 5:30pm - 8pm

Location:
The CAVE2, H Block
University of the Sunshine Coast
90 Sippy Downs Dr, Sippy Downs QLD 4556

Free RSVP - Booking Essential

About the artist:

Katie Harris-MacLeod is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice moves between art, ecology, and embodied forms of knowledge. Working across performance, material processes, sound, moving image, and site-responsive installation, she engages with the porous boundaries between body, land, and memory.

Katie’s work is deeply connected to nature, the psychogeography of place, ecofeminist thought, and the symbiotic entanglements experienced throughout the life cycle. Nuances of folklore, intergenerational narratives, femininity, loss, and isolation are present throughout her work. These provocations emerge through a poetic dialogue between body and landscape—an exchange enacted through performance, materiality, and what she calls a “practice of the wild”. Her work explores the fluid edges of belonging, tracing a transitory relationship to place and self.

Accessibility:

Please note, some areas of the event will feature low lighting. 

We encourage you to reach out to us if you have any questions to ensure your experience is enjoyable and accessible info@wearescca.org

Parking Details:

UniSC is a regulated parking zone from 8am–6pm. You can learn more about fees here.

Parking locations closest to The CAVE2 are P10 and P11 on the parking and amenities map.

R|Artist Residency: Natural Ecologies, Sunshine Coast is delivered by SCCA as part of The Refinery, in partnership with the Creative Ecologies Research Cluster at UniSC and is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland and through Sunshine Coast Council’s Arts and Heritage Levy and the Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF) in partnership with the Queensland Government.