Biography

Katie McGroarty (she/her) is an internationally exhibited and multi-award winning visual artist based in Dundee. She is also the founder of the Dundee Artists Database, the Edinburgh Creative Database, the West Dunbartonshire Creative Database, The Scottish Art Show as well as co-founder of the Scottish Working Class Database. Originally from the west coast of Scotland, she completed a Ba(hons) in Fine Art at the ECA, University of Edinburgh, before completing an MFA in Art and Humanities at DJCAD, University of Dundee in 2022 when she also started facilitating life drawing in Dundee. Katie is a practicing artist currently using oils in an effort to disrupt the preconceptions and limitations of working class artists, and has just completed her fifth solo show.