Cathy Wilkes
Cathy Wilkes (born 1966) is a Northern Irish artist who lives and works in Glasgow. She makes sculpture, paintings, and installations. She was the recipient of the Inaugural Maria Lassnig Prize in 2016[1] and was commissioned to create the British Pavilion for the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in 2019.
Life and work
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Wilkes was born in Dundonald, near Belfast. She attended Glasgow School of Art from 1985 to 1988, and subsequently completed an MFA at the University of Ulster in 1992. She lives and works in Glasgow.[2]
Her works often feature items from daily life or items of a domestic nature, such as baking parchment, cups, plates, and biscuits.[3]
Wilkes represented Scotland at the Venice Biennale in 2005. She also represented the United Kingdom at the 2019 event[4] with an exhibition of interconnected series of floor-bound sculptural installations, paintings and prints curated by Hayward Gallery curator Zoé Whitley.[5]
In 2008, Wilkes received a Turner Prize nomination in the "Sculpture, film, sound, performance" category. In 2016, Wilkes received the Inaugural Maria Lassnig Prize.[4]
References
[edit]- ↑ Perlson, Hili (12 January 2017). "Cathy Wilkes Nabs First Maria Lassnig Prize for Mid-Career Artists". Artnet. Retrieved 3 March 2025.
- ↑ "Cathy Wilkes" Archived 25 April 2018 at the Wayback Machine, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch. Retrieved 14 May 2008.
- ↑ "Cathy Wilkes". Tate Liverpool. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
- 1 2 Amy, Michael (January 2019). "Cathy Wilkes: Ugly Archetypes". Sculpture. 38: 63–64.
- ↑ Cathy Wilkes. Heni Publishing. May 2019. ISBN 978-1-912122-26-4.
External links
[edit]- Cathy Wilkes at Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
- Turner Prize 2008 at the Tate
- Guardian exhibition review – A review of her exhibition from 2001 in the Transmission Gallery.
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- 20th-century sculptors from Northern Ireland
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- Irish contemporary artists
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- Alumni of Ulster University
- Artists from Northern Ireland
- Women sculptors from Northern Ireland
- 20th-century women artists from Northern Ireland
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