Katy Baird is an artist and activist who frequently finds herself in bizarre situations of her own making. Her practice is centred around a desire to create a shared space that can be both welcoming and radical.
She has performed at live art festivals and venues as well as squat parties, clubs and raves. Her debut studio-based performance Workshy, a show about work and the things we do for money, was a smash hit and toured internationally to over 30 cities. Since 2016 she has been artist in residence at London queer nightclub Knickerbocker. Her most recent performance, Get Off, premiered in October 2023 as part of Transform Festival. The work is her first collaboration with arts centre CAMPO.
Katy proudly identifies as an “old, queer, fat, femme deviant” and is currently based in Hastings, East Sussex. Her most favourite review of her work is from Vice Magazine: “Sat there half drunk in the musty-dark theatre room of an Edinburgh Fringe art-show, watching someone piss in a wine glass then drink it, I can honestly say that… I’ve… never… felt… more… alive.”
