Annie Cattrell has lectured in many art colleges, and exhibits widely both nationally and internationally.
Annie Cattrell was born in Glasgow and studied Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art and the University of Ulster, and Ceramics & Glass at the Royal College of Art. Cattrell is Reader in Fine Art and Research Group Leader in Fine Art and Photography at De Montfort University. Since 2014 she has been Lead Artist for the New Museum Site at Cambridge University a ten year major redevelopment. Recently she completed a large scale sculpture commission called Resounding for the new award winning John Henry Brookes building designed by Design Engine for Oxford Brookes University.
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Practice
Cattrell works closely in dialogue with specialists in neuroscience, meteorology, engineering, psychiatry and the history of science. This cross-disciplinary approach has enabled her to learn in depth about these fields and informs her cutting-edge research. She is particularly interested in where art, science and the poetic meet.
External Collaborations
Annie Cattrell’s collaborations include working with Professor Morten L Kringelbach, neuroscientist at Oxford University and professor at CFIN Aarhus University Denmark; Cape Farewell, Scottish Islands Expedition; Royal Scottish Academy; Royal Society of British Sculptors and Cambridge University.
External Examining:
Chelsea School of Art, (MA Fine Art)
University of the Highlands and Islands, (BA Fine Art-Textiles)
University of Newcastle, (BA Fine Art)
Bath Spa University (BA Fine Art)
University of Staffordshire (BA Glass)
University of Central England (BA Fine Art)
University of Gloucestershire (PhD)
University of Southern Australia (PhD)
University of Sunderland (PhD)
Publications, exhibitions and other outcomes
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Timespan, Sutherland, Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, 2012
Conditions, Phoenix Square, Leicester, 2010
Fathom, The Pier Arts Centre, Orkney, 2010
Anne Faggionato Gallery, London, 2006
From Within, Faraday Museum, The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London, 2002
All or Nothing, Berwick Gymnasium Gallery, Berwick-upon-Tweed, 2001
Selected Group Exhibitions
Objects on the Edge, Humboldt University, Berlin, 2015
Scottish Drawings, RSA, Edinburgh, 2015
Period Table, Compton Verney Art Gallery, Warwickshire, 2015
The Power of the Sea, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, 2014
Exploration Architecture: Designing with Nature, Architecture Foundation, London, 2014
Brains (The Mind as Matter), Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester and Wellcome Foundation, London, 2014
Sea Change, John Hope Gateway, Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, 2013
Designing Health, Designhuis, Eindhoven, 2013
The Artists’ Studio, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 2012
Carbon, Escape Foundation, Paris, 2012
Pertaining to Things Natural, John Mayor Gallery and Chelsea Physic Garden, London, 2012
Unknown Fields (Recent British Drawings), Trinity Fine Art Contemporary, Young Gallery, Salisbury, 2012
Works on Paper, Eb and Flow Gallery, London, 2012
Lonely at the Top (Graphology Chapter 3), Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (MuHKA), 2011
Human+, Science Gallery at Trinity College, Dublin, 2011
Hybrid, Moving Image Centre, Auckland, 2010
Medicine and Art: Imagining the Future for Life and Love, Mori Museum, Tokyo, 2009–10
Not Nothing, curated by MuHKA, Mechelen, 2009
Paper Cuts, Fredericke Taylor Gallery, New York, 2008
Out of the Ordinary at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2007–9
Invisible Worlds at Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany, 2006
The Body: Art and Science at Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, and Einfach Komplex, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, 2005
Cattrell’s work is owned by the Wellcome Trust, MacManus Gallery and Museum, Glasgow Art Galleries, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Edinburgh City Art Centre and many private collections.
Selected Commissions, Projects and Residencies
North Range Buildings, New Museum Site, Cambridge University, 2014–17 (commission)
Ness River, Inverness, Scotland, 2015–16 (commission)
Resounding, The Forum, Oxford Brookes University 2015–16 (commission)
Masterplan Lead Artist, New Museum Site, Cambridge University
Cape Farewell, Scottish Islands Expedition, 2011
Healing and Reconciliation Chapel, Portsmouth Cathedral, 2011 (commission)
Lewisham Hospital main entrance, 2011
Creative Scotland/RSA Residency, The Pier Arts Centre, Orkney, 2010
U.W.H.A, Murray House, Westminster, London, 2009–10 (exterior commission)
Glaxo Smith Klein Beecham, Hammersmith Hospital, London, 2009–10 (commission)
Capacity, University Hospital Lewisham, 2008
0 to 10,000,000, New Biochemistry Department, Oxford University, 2007–8
Echo, Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail, Gloucestershire, 2007–8
In 2008 she jointly won the international Bombay Sapphire Art Prize.
She has completed many residencies and fellowships, these include at The Royal Institution of Great Britain, The Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Camden Art Centre, British School at Rome and the ACE Helen Chadwick Fellowship at Oxford University and AHRC Art, Science and Technology fellow at De Montfort University.
Awards and grants
RSA New Contemporaries 2015, Selection Panel
Hope Scott Trust Award for Publication, 2011
Wellcome Trust grant for research and production of new work for Coming of Age exhibition at the Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle, 2010
Bombay Sapphire Prize joint winner, 2008
Fellow Royal British Society of Sculptors
Royal Scottish Academician (Elect)
Swansea Lagoon, International Sculpture Commission, Selection Panel
General Purpose Committee, RSA, Edinburgh
Exhibition selection panel, Royal British Society of Sculptors, London
Commission, Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail, selection panel
Board Member, Forest of Dean Sculpture Trust
Scottish Arts Council, Dundee Visual Artists Award Panel
Committee Member Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
