Cathy Garner is a Yorkshire based artist and writer person.
She is great at being hopeless and always plays to her strengths. Her work is a meditation on everything, nothing and loneliness. Cathy considers the solitude of communication, the accidental solipsism of everyday life and the pathos of the joke. 'Knock Knock' she says but no one is home. Cathy can't be sure of anything and has yet to decide whether this plane of existence suffers from a surplus of meaning or a dearth. 'It could well be both,' she thinks. Cathy is ph 7. She thinks about Schrödinger's cat and envies at least half of him. |
Awards
-Shortlisted for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2017
Education
-Leeds University MA Critical and Cultural Theory 2020-present
-Newcastle University BA Fine Art 2013-2017
Past Projects and Exhibitions
2020
-Apr--Sept Early career writer in residence for the annual collaboration between Corridor 8 and Leeds Arts University
2017
-19-20 Aug Whitley Bay Art Houses, Whitley Bay, Newcastle Upon Tyne.
-23 Jun. Newcastle Fine Art Degree show, Hoxton Arches, London
-3-17 Jun. Newcastle Fine Art Degree show, Newcastle University.
-9-12 Jan. Playback festival. (contributor) ICA, London
-13 Jan. LSFF: Do You Remember the first time, (Panel participant) ICA, London
2016
-26 May. Marcrame Cod is Waving not Drowning/ Macrame Cod was not Waving but Drawing (performer at exhibition curated by Holly Argent and Deanna Smith) PH Space, Newbridge Project, Newcastle Upon Tyne
2015
-14 Dec. Underscore (spoken word performer at event curated by Jayne Dent as part of CIRCA BOOKSHOP) Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
-18 Dec. Underway (performer at event organised and curated by Sarah Grundy) North Wing, Newcastle Upon Tyne
-18 Nov. Anima performance at Underscore (project organised and curated by Jayne Dent) North Wing, Newcastle Upon Tyne
-24 Oct. Anima performance, (curated by the Magic Hat Cafe) Quilliam's Tea House, Newcastle Upon Tyne
- 24 Oct. Reconfiguring Ruins (contributor to Ben Jeans Houghton's sound walk), NewBridge Project, Newcastle Upon Tyne
-2 Oct. Opera du Mal (performer in Sarah Grundy's work), North Wing, Newcastle Upon Tyne
-27 May. The Jung Ones (contributor to show curated by Vanessa Zappi Taylor), System Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne.
- 8 May. Phantasma (contributor to show curated by Sorcha Niamh Cole), World Head Quarters, Newcastle Upon Tyne.
- 23 April. Broadside (spoken word performer at event curated by Jayne Dent), Bar Loco, Newcastle Upon Tyne
2014
- 11 Nov- Yellow Wallpaper (contributor to group show curated by Jayne Dent and Deanna Smith), Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Design Portfolio
Publications
2020
Of Wolves and Wild Woman (a Corridor 8 collaboration with Dust Collective and Leeds Arts University)
Fold issue 1
2017
Sediment
2016
A Lot Can Happen in Fifteen Minutes (an UnstapledPress collaboration with artist, Helen Shaddock)
2015
8 (collaboration displaying artist Josh Wilson's submission to Underscore beside Cathy's response)
Underscore (contributor to publication curated by Jayne Dent)
The Newcastle Degree show Catalogue (editor)
Interval II (editor and contributor for UnstapledPress)
venn (editor for UnstapledPress)
2014
Interval I (editor and contributor for UnstapledPress)
Nocturnal Habits, ( a contribution to the Poetry will be Made by All project)
-Shortlisted for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2017
Education
-Leeds University MA Critical and Cultural Theory 2020-present
-Newcastle University BA Fine Art 2013-2017
Past Projects and Exhibitions
2020
-Apr--Sept Early career writer in residence for the annual collaboration between Corridor 8 and Leeds Arts University
2017
-19-20 Aug Whitley Bay Art Houses, Whitley Bay, Newcastle Upon Tyne.
-23 Jun. Newcastle Fine Art Degree show, Hoxton Arches, London
-3-17 Jun. Newcastle Fine Art Degree show, Newcastle University.
-9-12 Jan. Playback festival. (contributor) ICA, London
-13 Jan. LSFF: Do You Remember the first time, (Panel participant) ICA, London
2016
-26 May. Marcrame Cod is Waving not Drowning/ Macrame Cod was not Waving but Drawing (performer at exhibition curated by Holly Argent and Deanna Smith) PH Space, Newbridge Project, Newcastle Upon Tyne
2015
-14 Dec. Underscore (spoken word performer at event curated by Jayne Dent as part of CIRCA BOOKSHOP) Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
-18 Dec. Underway (performer at event organised and curated by Sarah Grundy) North Wing, Newcastle Upon Tyne
-18 Nov. Anima performance at Underscore (project organised and curated by Jayne Dent) North Wing, Newcastle Upon Tyne
-24 Oct. Anima performance, (curated by the Magic Hat Cafe) Quilliam's Tea House, Newcastle Upon Tyne
- 24 Oct. Reconfiguring Ruins (contributor to Ben Jeans Houghton's sound walk), NewBridge Project, Newcastle Upon Tyne
-2 Oct. Opera du Mal (performer in Sarah Grundy's work), North Wing, Newcastle Upon Tyne
-27 May. The Jung Ones (contributor to show curated by Vanessa Zappi Taylor), System Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne.
- 8 May. Phantasma (contributor to show curated by Sorcha Niamh Cole), World Head Quarters, Newcastle Upon Tyne.
- 23 April. Broadside (spoken word performer at event curated by Jayne Dent), Bar Loco, Newcastle Upon Tyne
2014
- 11 Nov- Yellow Wallpaper (contributor to group show curated by Jayne Dent and Deanna Smith), Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Design Portfolio
Publications
2020
Of Wolves and Wild Woman (a Corridor 8 collaboration with Dust Collective and Leeds Arts University)
Fold issue 1
2017
Sediment
2016
A Lot Can Happen in Fifteen Minutes (an UnstapledPress collaboration with artist, Helen Shaddock)
2015
8 (collaboration displaying artist Josh Wilson's submission to Underscore beside Cathy's response)
Underscore (contributor to publication curated by Jayne Dent)
The Newcastle Degree show Catalogue (editor)
Interval II (editor and contributor for UnstapledPress)
venn (editor for UnstapledPress)
2014
Interval I (editor and contributor for UnstapledPress)
Nocturnal Habits, ( a contribution to the Poetry will be Made by All project)