Katie Sfetkidis is a multidisciplinary artist based in Naarm (Melbourne) with a 20 year career spanning live performance and visual art. Working as an artist, lighting and video designer, dramaturg, teacher and mentor, much of her practice has been dedicated to championing feminist and queer histories. .She was Co-Artistic Director of queer theatre company Little Ones Theatre (2012-2018)
Since 2018, her solo work has centered on large-scale, participatory projects interrogating civic participation and public memory. The Mayor Project (2018) marked a key turning point. In 2020, Katie was appointed the Feminist Emissary at the Queen Victoria Women's Centre, where she was commissioned to create PRESENT/MEMORY: Women’s COVID-19 Time Capsule (2020–2022) a socially engaged project involving over 20 women across Australia.
Her current long-form project, We the People (2022 - ongoing), has engaged over 50 activist groups and individuals across South Eastern Australia and has been presented with Vitalstatistix, Testing Grounds, Platform Arts, and the Cities of Yarra and Geelong.
Photo by Breeana Dunbar
Her visual works have also featured in Nasty Women (The Substation Billboard Galley, 2024) and The Feminist Poster Project (Fed Square & Melbourne Fringe, 2020–21). In 2025 she was commissioned to create a poster marking 50 years of the Women’s Art Register. Her work also appears in two feminist art publications; Enough: Artists and Writers on Gendered Violence (2023) and Doing Feminism by Anne Marsh (2021)
As a lighting designer, Katie has won multiple Green Room Awards and worked broadly across the sector with companies including; Melbourne Theatre Company, Malthouse Theatre, Belvoir, State Theatre South Australia, Joel Bray Dance, Aphids, Luke George, A Daylight Connection, Ilbijerri Theatre. She has toured extensively both nationally and internationally to festivals in Europe, the UK and India. She lectures at the Victorian College of the Arts, Collarts and Monash University and actively mentors emerging women lighting designers. She was a member of the Green Room Awards from (2008 - 2024) and the chair of the Theatre Companies Panel (2023/24).