Katrina Whitehead is an interdisciplinary artist and university lecturer, specialising in visual and material culture. 

Katrina is researching a PhD-in practice within the department of Arts and Humanities at the University of Huddersfield. Her research addresses a critical gap in academic discourse concerning the representation of femicide and the fetishisation of women within true crime photography and visual culture.

Originally inspired by research into the women in her family tree, Katrina uses the archive as a source of inspiration, including family albums, letters, diaries and vintage fashion ephemera, to explore the lives of women through a creative blend of historical truth and imaginative reconstruction. This has included collaborating with a costumier and milliner to reimagine the story of Mary Rogers, a real-life murder victim in a cold case from 1841. 

Katrina has exhibited her work internationally and has presented at conferences worldwide, including engagements with the Royal Photographic Society and the Association for Art History.