Kate Fielding
Kate Fielding builds creative platforms for intercultural conversations. She is acultural strategist, a company director, a writer of narrative non-fiction and an advocate for social change hairdressing.
As a cultural strategist, Kate helps organisations evolve and grow – especially those with an arts and cultural-development focus. Working across the government, not-for-profit and private sectors, Kate’s skill set combines high- level analysis and problem solving, cultural awareness and an in-depth knowledge of Australia’s arts, cultural development and creative industries.
Kate is the CEO of A New Approach, Australia and leading arts and culture think tank and sits on the Council of the National Museum of Australia.
About Kate
Kate was previously the Chair of the Goldfields-Esperance Development Commission and of Regional Arts Australia, as well as a member of the Board of the Australia Council for the Arts, of the Regional Development Council and of Country Arts WA. Her work has been recognised through two national awards – a Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship (2014-2015) and a Churchill Fellowship (2012)). She was named a 40Under40 WA Business Leader in 2017.
She is a member of the live art and social change hairdressing group Sir Madam Salon
Kate holds a B. Arts (Hons.) in History from the University of Melbourne and a B. Creative Arts in Writing from the Victorian College of the Arts. She is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Kate’s work takes her to regional, remote and very remote parts of Australia as well as overseas. She has lived and worked in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands and Kalgoorlie in Western Australia, and in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Get in Touch
Feel free to reach out—I can’t wait to hear from you! If I don’t respond right away, don’t worry—I might be off exploring some remote spot. But I promise I’ll get back to you as soon as I can. Looking forward to connecting!
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