Morwenna Catt

  Education

  2000 MA Fine Art, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds
  1997 BA Art & Design (Painting & Illustration) Bradford College of Art, Design & Textiles, Bradford

  Upcoming shows 2012:
 
  Yorkshire Art Loop, Yorkshire Print Workshop, Mirfield
  Birds Elementals; R - Space Gallery, Lisburn, N.Ireland
  2 Legs Good, 4 Legs Bad (6 ok) The Beetroot Tree Gallery, Draycott, Derbyshire

  Solo exhibitions

  2010 Frou Frou, Pop Up, Centenary Square, Bradford
  2009 Minor Repairs, Brass Gallery, Leeds
  2009 Poison, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford
  2008 Frou-Frou, Unit 9 Gallery, Bradford
  2007 Poison, South Square Gallery, Bradford
  2006 AtoB, Gallerija Celica, Ljubljana, Slovenia

  Selected Group exhibitions
 
  2011/12 Birds : Elementals, St Lawrence University Gallery, New York
  R Space Gallery, Liburn, Northern Ireland
  2011/12 Yorkshire Art Loop, Pop Up Art Space, Bradford
  West Yorkshire Print Workshop, Mirfield
  2011 Drawing with Thread, The Shire Hall Gallery, Stafford
  2010 Freaks, Shoreditch Town Hall Gallery, London
  2010 Pornograph, Brass Gallery, Leeds
  2009 Grassington Festival, Flights of Fancy, (fibreglass Curlew for charity auction)
  2009 Colouring Outside the Lines, Gallery II, University of Bradford
  2009 Project DoDai, Galerija Škuc, Ljubljana, Ljubljana
  2008 Flesh, Bradford Gallery, Yorkshire Craft Centre, Bradford
  2008 Ship of Fools, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
  2008 SCOPE New York Art Fair, with Jack the Pelican Presents Gallery, New York
  2007 Pricked: Extreme Embroidery, Museum of Arts & Design, New York
  2007 Art for Nothing, Mestna Galerija, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
  2007 Art for Nothing, Hoxton Square Gallery, London
  2006 The French Re-Evolution, Bethnal Green Working Mens Club, London
  2006 In Two Minds, Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax
  2006 Au creux du Desir, Hackney Empire Theatre, London
  2005 Illuminate Launch Event, Illuminate Festival, Centenary Square, Bradford City Centre
  2005 In Two Minds, Yorkshire Craft Centre, Bradford
  2004 Tongue in Cheek, Northern Quarter Gallery, Manchester
  2003 Arena Open (Prize winner), Arena Gallery, Liverpool
  2003 The Tenderness of Pain, Tower Contemporary Arts Centre, York
  2002 Liverpool Biennial, The Independent (Afoundation), Liverpool
  2001 Idea, Mongrel Monitor Project, Showrooms, Sheffield
  2001 Yorkshire Open, Wakefield Arts Mill, Wakefield
  2000 Lost & Found, Leeds Metropolitan Uni Gallery, Leeds

  Residencies

  2010 Meanwhile...A Cabinet of Curiosities, Stockton Museum Service, Stockton-on-Tees
  2006 Moving Stories, Radical Brontes/Illuminate - Bronte Parsonage Museum / South Square Gallery,
  Haworth / Thornton
  2005 Something of The Night - Education Residency, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds
  2004 Wakefield Travellers Site
  2004 Tong High School, Bradford
  2004 Bramley Primary School, Leeds
  2003 Stockton on the Forest School, York
 
  Selected Projects & Commissions
 
  2005-12 Q20 Theatre / Bradford Council, co-creative director, Bradford Lord Mayors Parade,
  floats & big build costume construction\
  2011 Bradford Industrial Museum, large scale Interactive artwork / sculptural furniture
  2011 Emergency Exit Arts / Middlesbrough Council Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge Centenary
  celebration, carnival artist
  2011 Artworks, Carers Resource, Arts and Health project
  2011 Batley, Central Estate, mural
  2011 DIVA, Wakefield - East Moor Community Garden, Mosaic paving
  2011 Carlisle Business Centre, Signage, commissioned artwork, Interior Design scheme
  2011 Pupil Referral Unit, Idle, outdoor sculptural seating
  2010 Stockton Council, Illustrations for Stockton Sparkles Xmas event
  2010 Pupil referral Unit, Painting project, working with 6 classes
  2009 - 2011 Stockton International Riverside Festival, parade structures & costumes
  2009 Middlesborough Reindeer Parade, structures + costumes
  2009 Stockton Xmas Carnival Parade, Structures + costumes
  2009 Public Commission, Holmfirth Library, Huddersfield Arts & Libraries
  2009 Manningham Revive housing project, Green Cities Architects, Artworks, Bradford Council
  2008 Table commission, Cartwright Hall Museum, Bradford
  2008 Shipley Town Centre Stone & Ironwork Sculpture, Shipley Council
  2007 Linfield Mount Hospital, Permanant Exterior Garden Artwork
  2006 Textile commission, Chichele College, Oxford & Bolsover Castle, English Heritage
  2006 Textile commission and participatory workshops, Haworth Festival
  2006 exterior pavement designs, Council for Mosques
   *   2005 "Home Is ...." Textile Project - Cabinet of Curiosities, English Heritage, Lincoln
  2005 With This Pencil I Can . . Outdoor Table Commission, Bradford Museums & Galleries
  2005 Exterior artwork, Manningham Community Garden
  2005 City Centre Mural, Bradford City Council
  2005 Interactive Creative Garden Installation, Yorkshire Craft Centre
  2005 Light Theatres, Dr Barnardo's Young Carers
  2004 Viewpoint Fenlands, Art linked to poetry, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
  2003 City Centre Banners, Lincoln City Council, Lincoln
  2003 Exterior Artwork, Hoyle Court School, Baildon
  2003 Community Cohesion mural, Bradford Youth Parliament
  2003 Speakout Homeless Project, Bradford
  2003 Experimental mapping residency, Scarborough - Eventus, Sheffield

  Private commissions

  2007 Interior & Exterior Artwork Scheme, Hansas Restaurant, Leeds
  2004 Large Scale Interior Scheme Commission, Puccinos Restaurant & Cafe, Morley, Leeds
  2003 The Matrix, Interior Artwork wall friezes, Skipton
  2002 Victoria Hotel, Interior Artwork, wall friezes, Halifax
  2000/2001 Gaudis Bar / The White Room, Interior & Exterior Artwork Scheme, Bradford
 

  Awards / Prizes

  2011 Oppenheim John Downs Memorial Trust Award
  2008 Flesh, Bradford Gallery, Yorkshire Craft Centre (prize winner)
  2007 Individual Artist Award, Arts Council England (poison)
  2006 Individual Artist Award, Arts Council England (a-b Slovenia)
  2003 Arena Open, Arena gallery, Liverpool (prize winner)
  2001 Yorkshire Open (Public vote - Prize winner)

  Teaching

  1999 to 2010 - Bradford College - Art & Design subjects
  Visiting Lecturer to BA courses at: Lincoln University
  Dewsbury College of Art
  Todmorden College

  Reviews / Articles / Interviews

  2011 Spittoon, a Literary Journal of Contemporary Forms, edited by Kristin Abraham cover art and
  featured art inside
  2009 Colouring Outside the Lines, issue 5, interview by Melanie Maddison
  2008 December Art Press. Issue 352 Broderie et art contemporain. Frédérique Joseph-Lowery
  2008 December, Saatchi online critics choice, review by Ana Finel Honigman
  2008 April/May FiberArts Pricked: Extreme Embroidery article
  2007 October Pricked: Extreme Embroidery – David Revere McFadden (Museum of Arts &
  Design Publication)
  2007 November myartspace - interview by Brian Sherwin
  http://www.myartspace.com/blog/2007/11/art-space-talk-morwenna-catt.html
  2007 November New York Times - Pricked: Extreme Embroidery- review
  2007 April Glas Javnosti,Belgrade newspaper - interview /article by Srdjan Djile Marcovic - English
  translation on my website
  2007 March Flying Dunces Italian online art magazine – interview
  http://www.koshka.it/pdf/FDM2-07.pdf
  2002 The Tatler – featured in Liverpool Biennial article
  1999 Flux Magazine - centre pages, featured artwork