Katie McFadden
Katie McFadden is a filmmaker and artist from Donegal, Ireland based in Belfast. She works in the medium of film, moving image and installation. She utilises cinematic language to contemplate the remnants of human activity within landscapes, treating these environments as repositories of cultural memory and identity. Her work seeks to capture this dialogue between past and present, exploring the lasting implications that economic and colonial powers have on our understanding of place and identity.
In 2019 she graduated from IADT with a BA Hons in Visual Art. In 2020 she received the New Irish Creatives grant to produce her film ‘The Flickering Light’ which screened at the Irish Embassy in Berlin. She recently completed a masters in film studies at Queen’s University Belfast. Her work has screened internationally at IMMA, Cork International Film Festival, Docs Ireland, Galerie HBK Saar, and Acinema Space, Milwaukee.
In 2024 she won the Northern Ireland Screen Development Pitch at Docs Ireland and began development on her debut feature film. She has received support from Donegal County Council Arts Bursary and IGNITE Talent Development Programme.
Insta: @katie.g.mcfadden
Emerging Exchange Artist
Thanks to financial support from Belfast City Council via the Artist Studios Organisational Grant 2024/25 Creative Exchange secured additional temporary studio spaces in Portview Trade Centre. Emerging Exchange is a pilot project investigating how the organisation might build capacity as we expand our remit with a view to securing long-term, purpose built artist studios on site in the coming years. These spaces are aimed specifically for artists who are in the early stages of their career and who have had limited or no access to a studio space previously.