Artist's CV
2026 Dovecote Gallery, Styrrup
2026 Weston Park Museum and Gallery, Sheffield Council
2026 Attercliffe Gallery and Cafe with Artists and Poet's discussion
2026 Foxlowe Arts Centre, Leek
2026 Cupola Gallery of Contemporary Art, 35 years celebratory exhibition
2026 Art in the Gardens, Premier Artist, Sheffield Botanical Gardens
2026 Open Studios, Sheffield and South Yorkshire
2026 Chatsworth House Showcase, Derbyshire
2025/6 Ferrers Gallery, Ferrers Centre for Arts and Crafts, Harold Staunton, Ashby de la Zouch
2025 Wirksworth Arts and Architecture Festival, Derbyshire
2025 RSBA exhibition of works in water-based media
2025 Art in the Gardens, Premier Artist, Sheffield Botanical Gardens
2025 Duets Exhibition, Teignmouth Arts Centre, Devon
2025 Artists' Residency, Brisons Veor, Cape Cornwall
2025 Derbyshire Open Arts
2025 Open Studios, Sheffield and South Yorkshire
2025 Chatsworth House, Derbyshire. Peak District Artisans Showcase
2024/5 Cupola Gallery of Contemporary Art - Joyful exhibition
2024 Tremenheere Gallery, Tremenheere Sculpure Gardens, Penzance
2024 The Great Dome Art and Design Fair, Buxton Fringe, Buxton
2024 The Cresent, Buxton
2024 Premier Artist at Art in the Gardens, Sheffield
2024 Shortlisted for Visual Art Open (Painting & mixed media category)
2023/4 Cupola Gallery of Contemporay Art - Cornucopia exhibition.
2023 Dovecote Gallery, Styrrup, Yorkshire
2023 Creatives Gallery, Melbourne, Derbyshire
2023 Chapel House Hotel, Penzance
2023The Dome, Buxton, Derbyshire (Buxton Fringe)
2023 Premier Artist at Art in the Gardens, Sheffield
2023 Zenwalls Gallery, Peeples
2023 Old School House Gallery, Muker, Swaledale, North Yorkshire
2023 Wirksworth Festival, Derbyshire
2023 Haddon Hall, Derbyshirejoint exhibition in Haddon Hall Gate House
2023 Chatsworth House, Derbyshire. Peak District Artisans Showcase
2023 Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2022/3 Cupola Contemporary Art Christmas exhibition, Sheffield
2022 Judges' prize and Derbyshire Trophy, Buxton Gallery and Museum
2022 Art Social, Snig Hill Gallery, Sheffield
2022 Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield
2022 Derbyshire Open Arts
2022 Ferens Gallery, Hull
2022 The Dome, Buxton, Derbyshire (Buxton Fringe)
2022 Chatsworth House Stables Shop
2022 Kildonan Residency at the Old School House, Isle of Arran
2021 Cupola Contemporary Art Galley Scion Exhibition, Sheffield
2021 Winner (judges prize, first prize), Wirksworth Festival
2021 Ferens Gallery, Hull
2021/22 Old School House Gallery, Muker, Swaledale, North Yorkshire
2021/22 Artful Pigeon Gallery, Glossop, Derbyshire
2021 Premier Artist, Art in the Gardens, Sheffield Botanical Gardens
2021 The Dome, Buxton, Derbyshire
2021 Solo (selected) exhibition at Seven Hills Gallery, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield
2021 A Year of Wondering - personal responses to the Covid pandemic, Eyam Derbyshire
2020 Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2020 Sit in or Take Away. Exhibition of Society of Scottish Artists, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2020 Symbol - mixed exhibition at Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield
2019 Kildonan Residency at the Old School House, Isle of Arran
2019 On the Surface of Things, exhibition at Access Space, Sheffield
2019 Exibition of African Art, Old Biscuit Factory, London
2019 Pineapple Gallery, Bishop Aukland
2019 Art in the Gardens (premier artist), Sheffield
2019 Buxton Museum & Gallery
2019 Cupola Gallery
2019 Derby Print Open (award winners)
2019 No.28 Belper, Derbyshire
2019 The Dome, Buxton Fringe
2019 The Old Lock Up Gallery, Cromford
2019 Derbyshire Open Arts
2019 Open Up Sheffield
2019 Chatsworth House, Derbyshire with Peak District Artisans
2018 Wirksworth Arts Festival, Wirksworth
2018 Derbyshire County Council Award, Buxton Museum
2018 Open Up Sheffield
2018 Derbyshire Open Arts, Spring Bank Arts Centre, New Mills
2018 Derbyshire Open Arts, Beechenhill, Ilam Derbyshire
2018 Cupola at the Blue Moon
2018 Society of Scottish Artists, Scottish Academy, Annual Sit in or Take Away
2018 Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield
2018 Bessemer Gallery, Sheffield
2017 The Dome, Buxton with Peak District Artisans
2017 Space 35, Sheffield
2017 Bessemer Gallery, Sheffield
2017 Walkley Festival Arts Trail, Sheffield
2017 Open Up Sheffield
2016 Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield
2016 Open Up Sheffield
2016 Premier Artist at Sheffield Botanic Gardens
2016 North Open at Ripon Cathedral
2016 Derbyshire Open Arts, Old Station Gallery, Rowsley
2016 Open Up Sheffield
2016 Cupola at the Blue Moon
2015 CD cover for the Early Cartographers
2015 Wirksworth Arts Festival, Wirksworth
2015 Premier Artist, Art in the Gardens, Sheffield
2015 Netherhall Jazz & Arts weekend, Hathersage
2015 Rest Gallery, Bamford
2014 SSA Annual Exhibition (Sit in or Take Away), Royal Scottish Academy
2014 The Workstation, Sheffield with Sheffield Printmakers
2014 Art in the Gardens, Sheffield
2014 Derby Open, Buxton
2014 Cupola at the Blue Moon
2014 Open Up Sheffield, Sheffield
2014 Walkley Festival, Sheffield
2014 Rest Gallery, Bamford
2014 Blue Moon with Sheffield Printmakers
2014 The Corner Gallery, Sheffield
2013 Art in the Gardens, Sheffield
2013 The Corner Gallery, Sheffield
2013 Walkley Festival Art Exhibition, Sheffield
2013 Open Up Sheffield
2012 Open Up Sheffield
2012 Workstation Gallery, Sheffield
2012 Cupola Gallery, Sheffield
2012 Cloud Nine Gallery Howden
2012 Alpha Art Gallery, Edinburgh
2011 Cloud Nine Gallery Howden
2011 North Light Gallery, Huddersfield
2011 Great Longstone Art Exhibition
2010 Beady Eye Art, Sheffield
2010 Brevon Art Gallery, Doncaster
2009 Winter Gardens, Sheffield
2008 Space59 Gallery, Sheffield
Past exhibitions & shows
Awards
2026 Artist's residency, Linkshouse Orkney under the auspices of Pier Arts Centre
2025 Longlist Visual Arts Open
2025 Awarded Artist's Residency for two weeks at Brisons Veor, Cape Cornwall
2022 Judges Prize (First prize), Derbyshire Trophy held under the auspices of Buxton Gallery and Museum
2021 Judges' Prize (First prize) - Wirksworth Festival Art and Architecture
2021 Final Short list for British Open Art Prize
2019 Travel Bursary, Making Ways (Arts Council Funded)
2019 Derby Print Open Prize awarded by the Green Man Gallery Buxton
2018 Derby County Council Award, Buxton Art Gallery and Museaum
2015 Best in Show Sheffield Fayre
Artist's Statement
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Cath Dunn is a painter/printmaker inspired by land use and the rural and urban landscape. Fascinated by natural forms and a sense of place – rocks, trees, the lie of the land – Cath's primary interest lies in arrangement, abstraction and stylization. Using the patterns, curves and rhythms of the land she seeks to capture the spirit and her feelings for specific places. Colour, either vivid or subtle, perhaps influenced by living in Africa for many years, remains central to her work. Line is also important though not explicit, often created by the juxtaposition of contrasting colours and tones.
Cath works in a variety of materials with an emphasis on water-based media on paper. These she uses in unusual ways, in blocks of colour to build an image based on the rhythms of dance and music she find in the landscape. Increasingly she is using combinations of materials: collograph, gouache and collage for example, to attain the textures she sees and feels.
Recurring themes in Cath's work are the rhythms of the land, memories of childhood and cycles of life.
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