Cathy Wilkes
Cathy Wilkes (born 1966) is an artist from Northern Ireland,[1] she makes sculpture, paintings and installations. She is a 2008 Turner Prize nominee.
Life and work
Cathy Wilkes was born in Belfast. She attended Glasgow School of Art 1985–1988, and took an MFA at the University of Ulster 1991–1992.
Wilkes lives and works in Glasgow.[1]
Her works often feature items from daily life or items of a domestic nature, such as baking parchment, cups, plates and biscuits.[2]
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions include The Modern Institute, Glasgow (1999), Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (2001), Cubitt Gallery, London (2001); Migros Museum, Zurich (2002); Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2004), Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin (2004, 2007), Milton Keynes Gallery (2008) Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany (2011), and Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (2015).[3]
Her many group exhibitions include Beck's Futures, ICA, London (2000); Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2002); Independence, South London Gallery (2003); Selective Memory, Scottish Pavilion, Venice Biennale and Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (2005); 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art (2004) and If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, MuHKA Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp (2007).
Notes and references
- 1 2 "Cathy Wilkes", Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch. Retrieved 14 May 2008.
- ↑ "Cathy Wilkes". Tate Liverpool. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
- ↑ "Cathy Wilkes | Tate". www.tate.org.uk. Retrieved 2015-09-18.
External links
- 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.
- Art Monthly exhibition review
- A review of her exhibition in 2008 in Milton Keynes.
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