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

Within the Department of Arts and Humanities at the University of Huddersfield, Katrina completed a practice-based PhD in which her research addressed a critical gap in academic discourse concerning the representation of femicide and the fetishisation of women within true crime magazines. Building on this work, she is now developing a new strand of research exploring the portrayal of female spies within visual and material culture, with a continued focus on the book as a critical and creative form.

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. 

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