Cathy Wilkes
Cathy Wilkes
Hunterian Art Gallery
‘Untitled’, Cathy Wilkes, 2024. Installation view, Hunterian Art Gallery. Image courtesy of the artist and The Modern Institute/ Tony Webster ltd. Photo credit: Patrick Jameson
‘Untitled’, Cathy Wilkes, 2024. Installation view, Hunterian Art Gallery. Image courtesy of the artist and The Modern Institute/ Tony Webster ltd. Photo credit: Patrick Jameson. Photo credit: Fred Pederson
‘Untitled’, Cathy Wilkes, 2024. Installation view, Hunterian Art Gallery. Image courtesy of the artist and The Modern Institute/ Tony Webster ltd. Photo credit: Patrick Jameson
Cathy Wilkes
Cathy Wilkes
07/06—29/09/2024
Open Tuesday to Sunday 10am–5pm
This exhibition of new work by Cathy Wilkes responds to issues of war and conflict and has been realised through the IWM 14-18 NOW Legacy Fun d, a national partnership programme of artist commissions led by Imperial War Museums.
In a practice that ranges across sculpture, painting and installation, artist Cathy Wilkes employs materials associated with everyday domestic life to consider profound subjective or social realities that cannot be fully expressed in words or images. The exhibition is influenced by Cathy’s childhood in Northern Ireland, and by histories and experiences of violence not usually given expression within official representations of war.
Cathy Wilkes (b.1966, Dundonald, Belfast, lives and works in Glasgow, UK) graduated from The Glasgow School of Art in 1988 and completed her MFA at the University of Ulster, Belfast in 1992. Her consistently tough work with social realist representation has produced an outstanding and unique body of work spanning 25 years. Her sculpture, painting and installation in some ways demonstrate how we might redefine genre painting for the present day. In her work we find both deep sadness and mystical theophany.
Selected solo exhibitions include: The Modern Institute, Glasgow (2023); 58th International
Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, British Pavilion, Venice (2019); Yale Union, Portland
(2018); MoMA PS1, New York (2017-2018); Tate Liverpool, touring to LENTOS
Kunstmuseum, Linz and Museum Abteiberg, Möenchengladbach (2015 – 2016); Tramway,
Glasgow (2014); The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago (2012);
Gesellschaft Für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen (2011); Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2011);
Kunstverein München e.V., Munich (2011); Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (2011); Studio
Voltaire, London (2009); and Milton Keynes Gallery (2008)
Photo credit: Patrick Jameson