Artist's CV

Past exhibitions & shows

 

2023/4 Cupola Gallery of Contemporay Art - Cornucopia exhibition.

2023 Dovecote Gallery, Styrrup, Yorkshire

2023 Creatives Gallery, Melbourne, Derbyshire

           2023 Chapel House Hotel, Penzance

           2023 he 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

           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 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

      

Awards

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.

 

Over the past five years or so, Cath has been exploring the Dark Peak, an area of heather, peat, rock and rough land around Sheffield. Visually, this provides her with a myriad of surfaces and patterns to explore in paint, printmaking and collage. Certain ecologies, such as the birch woods found throughout the Peak District, represent for Cath, the gracefulness found in other art forms such as contemporary dance. Metaphorically, the Dark Peak provides her with a sense of freedom while at the same time a pagan connection to the elements and a feeling of timelessness.

 

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 This page was last updated January 2024

 

Upcoming events & exhibitions in 2024

 

Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, Mall Galleries, London

 28th March - 13 April, 10am - 5pm, see link below for more details and on-line catalogue

http://royalinstituteofpaintersinwatercolours.org  

 

OPEN STUDIOS, Sheffield

Early May Bank Holiday 4,5,6th May & 11, 12th May see https://openupsheffield.co.uk for details

 

 

THE CRESCENT, BUXTON 

 4-7 JULY see https://www.peakdistrictartisans.co.uk for details

 

THE GREAT DOME Art & DESIGN FAIR, BUXTON 

19-21 July

https://www.peakdistrictartisans.co.uk for details

 

 

         Work can also be seen at

 

Old School House Art Gallery and Craft Centre, Muker, Swaledale, North Yorkshire 

 

 

Artful Pigeon Gallery, Glossop, Derbyshire

 

Zenwalls Gallery, Peeples

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

www. peakdistrictartisans.co.uk/eventsHome page online
 This page was last updated January 2024

 

Upcoming events & exhibitions in 2024

 

OPEN STUDIOS, Sheffield

Early May Bank Holiday 4,5,6th May & 11, 12th May see https://openupsheffield.co.uk for details

 

 

Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, Mall Galleries, London

 28th March - 13 April, 10am - 5pm, see http://royalinstituteofpaintersinwatercolours.org  for more details

 

 

 

THE CRESCENT, BUXTON 

 4-7 JULY see https://www.peakdistrictartisans.co.uk for details

 

THE GREAT DOME Art & DESIGN FAIR, BUXTON 

19-21 July

https://www.peakdistrictartisans.co.uk for details

 

 

         Work can also be seen at

 

Old School House Art Gallery and Craft Centre, Muker, Swaledale, North Yorkshire 

 

 

Artful Pigeon Gallery, Glossop, Derbyshire

 

Zenwalls Gallery, Peeples

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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