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 2017 and was commissioned to create the British Pavilion in Venice in 2019.
Life and work
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.[1]
Her works often feature items from daily life or items of a domestic nature, such as baking parchment, cups, plates and biscuits.[2]
Wilkes represented Scotland at the Venice Biennale in 2005, and represented the United Kingdom at the 2019 event.[3]
In 2008, Wilkes received a Turner Prize nomination in the "Sculpture, film, sound, performance" category. In 2017, Wilkes received the Inaugural Maria Lassnig Prize.[3]
References
- ^ "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.
- ^ a b Amy, Michael (January 2019). "Cathy Wilkes: Ugly Archetypes". Sculpture. 38: 63–64.
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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