Catriona Robertson

We are living in a human-made landscape, where few truly wild places remain. Robertson’s monumental sculptures imagine a post-human future where nature reclaims the city through the cracks of concrete foundations. Eroded surfaces resemble lichen, future fossils, and relics of an urban geology emerging as hybrid ecosystems and new age sediments of the Anthropocene, as the synthetic intertwines with the organic.

Robertson is a London based British artist. She gained her BA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins and graduated in MA in Sculpture, Royal College of Art in 2019. Robertson has won multiple awards including the Cass Art Prize, Contemporary Art Development Award 2024, the Boomer Prize, the Gilbert Bayes Award, Royal Society of Sculptors and the Benson Sedgwick Metalworking Residency in 2022. In 2021 she was shortlisted for the Ingram Prize and won Second Prize UK New Artist of the Year, Robert Walters Group. In 2020 the Standpoint Gallery selected Catriona for a Graduate Residency, supported by the Mark Tanner Sculpture Award.

In 2023 she created a sculpture garden ‘Gigantic Pile’ for the Saatchi Gallery RHS Chelsea Flower Show, and was nominated as Women of the Year. ’ Gigantic Pile' originated at the Merz Barn in the Lake District and has since been shown at the Saatchi Gallery and featured outside the Art House in Wakefield.
Catriona has shown her work nationally and internationally, including winning the Emerging Artist Award in 2018 and exhibiting with the British Council Germany at the Liebermann Villa in Berlin, Norway, Japan and across the UK in Scotland, Somerset and the Lake District.

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