Artist Biography:
Kathryn Killackey is freelance science illustrator. She has a B.A. in Anthropology from University of California, Berkeley, a M.A. in Field and Analytical Techniques in Archaeology from University College London, and a Certificate in Science Illustration from the internationally renowned program at California State University, Monterey Bay.
Her education has given her strong research skills which she is interested in applying to a range of scientific topics. She is skilled at integrating diverse scientific datasets, attracting viewers, and engaging imaginations. She specializes in archaeological illustration and has many years experience as an excavator and archaeobotanist. This experience informs and enriches her artifact illustrations, building reconstructions, and illustrations of past people. The visual anthropologist and heritage specialist Dr. Sara Perry writes Kathryn has “a unique insight into the nature of archaeology itself: its soul, its data, its practitioners, and its weaving of these components into disciplinary knowledge” (Perry 2014:204). She was Illustration Team Leader from 2007 to 2020 for the Çatalhöyük Research Project, and has also illustrated for projects in Bolivia, Peru, Mexico, United States, Greece, Jordan, and China.
Find more of her work online at killackeyillustration.com.
