KATY McGAHAN
 

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Filmmaker and Audio Artist

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​​Against the spectre of climate breakdown, I am drawn to making artworks

that explore the tensions between our disconnection and simultaneous efforts to reconnect with the rest of the living world. I am interested in making work that conveys both the strength and fragility of nature and

re-evaluating our place within it - in this time of flux. I'm also interested

in interrogating the relationship between the oppression of women and

the wanton degradation of the planet - across time.

 

In 2022 I completed the two-year MFA in Creative Documentary Practice

at University College London (UCL). This gave me the opportunity to develop my filmmaking and audio practice. My graduation film, a grassroots/activist documentary, The Happy Man Tree (2022), has been shown in festivals and was selected to screen as part of the UK-wide Green Screen Network, an initiative set up by Picturehouse to encourage cinemas across the UK to show more environmental films. I am one of the founding members of the NoticeThisTree art/activist group - we organise  participatory art/activist/performance events across the UK.​

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My films and text works have been exhibited in galleries, for instance, 

Stage Light (2020) was screened as a looped video installation at Prép'art, Toulouse, as part of the 23rd Traverse Vidéo experimental film festival in 2020. 

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I run short courses in radical filmmaking and experimental audio under

the banner of Hyenas in Petticoats. 

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I was Curator of Independent Documentary at the BFI National Archive (2004-2016) and continue to work as a film researcher, writer and curator

in a freelance capacity for various organisations including the BFI and the Open University. 

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​I live in the High Peak, Derbyshire,​

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I have dual British/Irish citizenship. ​

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Twitter: @katymcgahan
Instagram: @katy.mcgahan

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