Katrina Lolicato works in moving-image essays and archival collage.
Across Super 8, 16mm found footage, family archive and sound, her practice re-organizes fragments of lived experience to test how projection, inheritance and responsibility operate through image and edit. Theory is not cited. It is staged.
Holiday footage becomes a study in consumption and distance.
Discarded family films become memorial ground.
Domestic gesture shares the frame with state archive.
Editing remains visible. Gaps are left unresolved. Black frames interrupt continuity. The work resists nostalgia, refuses seamless narrative and exposes the mechanics of remembering. Tourism, land, commemoration and ritual are not treated as themes but as structures. The question running through the practice is simple and persistent: what do we sustain, and at whose expense?
Her moving-image works have been presented at SBS On Demand; Melbourne Documentary Film Festival; Multicultural Film Festival; People of Passion International Film Festival at ACMI; White Night Melbourne; Federation Square; Museo Italiano; City Library Melbourne; and 111CM (111 Community), Suwon, in partnership with the Suwon Cultural Foundation and the International Visual Sociology Association.
Alongside her studio practice, she co-directs Arc Up Australia, a participatory creative engagement studio working across oral history, exhibitions and community activation.
Lolicato teaches at Deakin University and has lectured in the Master of Art Curatorship at the University of Melbourne. In end-of-life care, she actively works with individuals to strengthen relational bonds and empower them to shape and share their own life narratives, drawing on narrative therapy approaches that position people as authors of meaning rather than subjects of circumstance. She has served as Vice President of Oral History Victoria and is Co-Founder of the Sicilian Arts Collective Australia.
