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 works

that explore the tension between our deep connection with the rest of the living world and our simultaneous involvement in the destruction of it - in this time of great environmental flux. I am interested in making works that convey at once the fragility and the resilience of nature and re-evaluating our place within it. 

 

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

at University College London (UCL) which gave me the opportunity to develop my filmmaking and audio practice. My graduation film, The Happy Man Tree (2022), has been shown in festivals in the UK and internationally.

It was selected to screen as part of the UK-wide Green Screen Network,

an initiative on the part of Picturehouse cinemas to encourage cinemas across the UK to screen more environmental films. I am one of the

founding members of the NoticeThisTree art / activist group who have been organising participatory art/activist/performance events in urban areas across the UK since 2023.​

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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 (2001-2016) 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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Instagram: @katy.mcgahan

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