Featured Exhibitions
Cathy Wilkes
Cathy Wilkes
The Modern Institute (Aird’s Lane)
Installation view, Cathy Wilkes, The Modern Institute (Aird’s Lane), 2026. Courtesy The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd.
Cathy Wilkes
The Modern Institute (Aird’s Lane)
05.06–19.08.2026
Cathy Wilkes’ exhibition is comprised of new sculptures and paintings installed at The Modern Institute, Aird’s Lane.
Cathy grew up in a working-class area of East Belfast and moved to Glasgow aged 19, in 1985. Her art and writing are introspective and sometimes at the edge of legibility. At the same time, out of Cathy’s non-dualist world emerge figures and objects which are potently direct and seditious.
This exhibition is part of a larger group of new works which will be shown at The Model in Sligo, Eire, in September 2026.
Cathy won the Maria Lassnig Prize in 2017, represented Scotland at 51st Venice Biennial in 2005 and Britain at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019. Cathy was a founding member of Castlemilk Womanhouse, Dalriada Gallery and Glendale Women’s Cafe Pollokshields.
Photo credit: Matthew Barnes