Katelyn Geard (b.2000) is an emerging artist working in nipaluna Hobart. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours at The University of Tasmania in 2022. Katelyn is a multimedia artist working primarily in drawing and photography. She is interested in art as a form of communication and expression. Her works are representational and introspective explorations of embodied identity and experience. She is interested in the human body as something that feels and can be felt, and something that holds, interprets, and expresses emotions.

Katelyn received the Executive Dean’s Acquisitive Award in 2022 and the Abel Tasman Art Prize in 2018. She has also been a finalist in the Tasmanian Portrait Prize and the Henry Jones Art Prize. She has held a solo exhibition in Melbourne and has participated in group shows across Tasmania including the inaugural RISE exhibition at Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery.