Kate Hill is an artist-researcher and head of Ceramics at the School of Art and Design, ANU. Hill operates an expanded ceramic practice to consider the central matter of this practice—clay soil—in relation to its entanglements with cultural and material politics. She works with clay both inside and outside the studio, through scultpural processes involving raw and low-fired clay together with found and repurposed materials, as well as through situated, socially engaged practices in clay soil environments. Situated projects often incorporate practices of gardening and walking, together with the audiovisual mediums of sound and video.

Her PhD project, Digging: Handling the layers of material politics through the processing of local clay soils (published, 2025) investigated some of the assumptions towards Land and clay enacted and perpetuated by colonists when establishing the field of settler ceramics in Australia, continuing to play-out through recent terms such as 'wild' clay. The project was initiated by a decade long practice of digging clay, enabling study of what she termed a 'pit to product' dynamic. Through her expanded ceramics practice, Hill maintains an interest in modes of working which are cyclical, porous, and collective.