Kathryn Fullerton lives and works by the Salish Sea on the ancestral swiya of the Shíshálh people, Canada.
She trained as an educator and is committed to the scholarship of teaching and learning, with the epistemology of how human beings learn as central to her inquiry. In 2009 she received her MA in Environmental Education and Communication, from Royal Roads University, and was a Governor General’s Gold Award nominee based on her groundbreaking arts based thesis. This recognition led Kathryn to see art as a meaningful way to connect with community and emboldened her to nurture an art practice that spans multiple disciplines including, but not limited to, sculpture, photography, video, and installation.
Her research delves into embodied ways of knowing so that her art praxis is generated from instincts (impulses) and the materials she collaborates with, which are often sourced from earth and Earth as source.
Kathryn’s life’s work, and commitment to sympoetic thinking and action within a context of multi-species cooperation and flourishing, is grounded in a deep curiosity to know more about the visible and invisible worlds we embody.
Portrait by Kasia Gatkowska