Catherine Levey
My interest in people is reflected in my practice. My process involves immersing myself in stories from biographies and archives and painting my emotional response which is naturally self-referential and ever changing. Lately this has involved a reflection on people who have suffered with mental illness. Through drawing and painting in fragile layers, the dream like presence of these people appear.
Figures are often presented without context, inviting a unique dialogue through questions about the narrative. Recently my practice has taken a feminist turn, investigating reductive attitudes in historical and contemporary experience.
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO
2023 March to May [Catherine Levey] 'Fragmentation' University of Nottingham Mental Health Institute Art Gallery [Curator and artist and keynote speaker at panel discussion 'Can Art Change Your Preconceptions of Mental Health Problems, Nottingham University]
GROUP
2024 July 12th to 4th August Backlit Members Exhibition, Backlit Gallery, Nottingham
2024 June 3rd to July 17th 'Art As A Response to Mental Health Annual Exhibition 2024' Doncaster Art Fair
2024 March 15th to 17th Bloom Free the Gallery, Haynes Lanes, London
2024 March 8th to April 20th Stand Up! Artcore Gallery, Derby
2024 March 1st to 30th Ephemeral Elegance: Women in Artistic Reflection Cista Arts
2024 January 31st to February 15th Lost Love Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield
2023 December 16th to January 30th 2024 Portraits Gallery Omnibus Dresden Germany. Online exhibition available here; https://www.gallery-omnibus.com/portraits-hall-1
2023 December 1st to 16th Radiate Surface Gallery Nottingham
2023 September 1st to 30th 30 Days 30 Artists. Metaspace Gallery [online exhibition]
2023 August 11th to September 2nd Street Art Festival, Surface Gallery, Nottingham [one work exhibited 'Amy Blue'
2023 May 12th to 20th 'Unquiet Minds' Surface Gallery, Nottingham [Curator and artist]
2023 January Postcard Show, Surface Gallery, Nottingham
2022 D31 Gallery Doncaster Summer exhibition online
2018 TALP Open Finalists exhibition, Nottingham
2018 Group exhibition ‘Traumascapes and Landscapes of the Interior’ City Arts and Institute of Mental Health, Nottingham University
2017 Group exhibition ‘Here and Now’ City Arts and Institute of Mental Health, Nottingham University
QUALIFICATIONS
2023 BA [Hons] Painting [awarded First Class Honours] Open College of the Arts [OCA, University of the Creative Arts]
2015 De Montfort University PGCE
MEMBERSHIPS
2023 Backlit Gallery, Nottingham Associate Artist
2022 Membership Axis web
NOMINATIONS
2022 Shortlist Zealous Amplify Art Prize and runner up Peoples choice vote
2019 Nominated for Open College of the Arts Showcase
TV SERIES
2020 Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year Wildcard
2018 Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year Wildcard
PUBLICATIONS
2024 Swordplay zine 'Brave' https://swordplayzine.gumroad.com/
2024 SU4IP Sheffield artist book theme 'Order' https://su4ip.cargo.site/Publications
2024 Ephemeral Elegance: Women in Artistic Reflection Hardback Catalogue
2024 101 Contemporary Artists Book Issue 5 www.collectartwork.org
2024 Flux Review Magazine and Hardback issue 10 https://www.thefluxreview.com/read-online/
https://mixam.co.uk/share/65df5d3c57daf75d3870e43b
2023 Haus-a-rest Beginnings and Endings Issue 42 Zine https://haus-a-rest.squarespace.com/issue-42-exhibition-beginnings-and-endings
2017 edge-zine online publication, Issue 5 ‘Share’
2017 edge-zine online publication, Issue 4 ‘Growth’
2016 edge-zine online publication, issue 3 ‘Resistance’
2016 edge-zine online publication, issue 2 ‘Change’
2016 edge-zine online publication, issue 1 ‘Aftermath’