Inspiring Women Winter 2017

GETTING TO KNOW KATHERINE
Where is the most beautiful place in
the world you have been? The year
in my youth that I spent hitchhiking
through colourful Mexico and Central
America is my favourite holiday. But
Australia is definitely the most
beautiful country to me.
If you were moving back to your
home country, what would you miss
most about your host country?
Australia’s National Health Scheme,
Medicare. Over the past decade I
have been the grateful recipient of
tremendously expensive cancer
treatment at a very low cost to me.
What personal motto do you live by
and how does it affect what you do/
don’t do? Make Art Every Day! I’m
not happy unless I’m dyeing, printing,
glueing, cutting, painting, stitching.
What one thing would you change about
yourself if you magically could? Fully
functioning body parts! I quite miss breaking
into a run, or walking in the sand, or climbing
stairs, or dancing the boogy— all at age 35
of course!!
Tell us something interesting about yourself
that not many people know. I belong to the
90,000 feminists with a Facebook presence,
Destroy the Joint. After a male shock-jock in
2012 loudly bleated that female leaders,
including the prime minister, were
“destroying the joint,” thousands of us were
emboldened to keep up our destructive
work of tearing down the status quo and
bringing in gender equality for a better world.
#destroythejoint.
What historical time period would you like to
live in and why? Paris between the wars if I
could ignore the poverty and work with
Picasso, Matisse, and all of Peggy
Guggenheim’s painters
and sculptors.
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“Intrinsic III”
If you could meet one
famous or influential
woman, alive or dead,
who would it be and
why? What would you
talk about with her? No
doubt about it— Gloria
Steinem! She’s been my
hero and inspiration
forever. After thanking
her for making and
keeping me and millions
of others, a feminist, we
would talk about the
myriad ways that
women are handing that
message over to our
younger sisters.