Unearthed - Catriona Robertson

Robertson imagines a post-human future in which nature reclaims the city through the cracks of its concrete foundations. Eroded surfaces, made from her signature material paper-concrete, emerge as relics excavated from imagined hybrid ecosystems — new-age sediments of the Anthropocene. As synthetic materials intertwine with the organic, they begin to resemble precious marbles or future fossils.Beneath our feet lies a subterranean network of hidden cities, vibrating with unseen energy. By covering the ground with concrete, tar, and bitumen, we disrupt the rhythm of natural ecological cycles— offering little or no benefit to the earth and further disconnecting ourselves from the terra underfoot. Catriona Robertson is a London based British / Scottish artist working in sculpture, installation and performance. She graduated from the Royal College of Art, MASculpture in 2019 and studied her BA Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in 2010. Catriona has recently won the 2024 Contemporary Art Development Award, as part of the Cass Art Prize 2024. She won the Boomer Prize, selected by judges Constantin Cosmin, Anthony Fawcett, Jo McLaughlin and Tabish Khan with an exhibition at the Boomer Gallery in Tower Bridge. Catriona also had a solo show at the Muse Gallery and during a residency created an ambitious site specific installation at the Zig Zag Building in Glastonbury aspart of Somerset Art Week. In January 2024 she showcased her monumental sculptures at the Saatchi Gallery in the exhibition ‘Everyday Monuments’ inJanuary 2024. In2023 she was nominated as a ‘Women of the Year’ for her work ‘Gigantic Pile’ at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show Saatchi Gallery Garden. In 2022 she won the Gilbert Bayes Award selected by the Royal Society of Sculptors and was selected as the winner of the Benson Sedgwick Metalworking Residency for 2022. In 2021 she was awarded the Muse Gallery residency. and won Second Prize, UK New Artist of theYear Award with an inaugural exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery supported byRobert Walters Group. She was shortlisted for the Ingram Prize in 2021 and she won a Studio Prize at SET Woolwich. In 2020 the Standpoint Gallery selected Catriona for a Graduate Residency, supported by the Mark Tanner SculptureAward. Catriona has shown her work nationally and internationally, including winning the Emerging Artist Award and exhibiting her with the British CouncilGermany in Berlin at the Liebermann Villa. She has done international residencies in Berlin, Norway, Japan and national residencies across the UK inScotland, Somerset and the Lake District. GiganticPile’ is currently featured at the Art House in Wakefield - a public sculpture on the roof and at the entrance of the building supported by the Royal Society of Sculptors. Education: Royal College of Art, MA Sculpture in 2019 and studied her BA Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in 2010. Selected Awards & Residencies 2024 - Contemporary Art Development Award - The CASS Art Prize 2024 2024 - Boomer Art Prize,Winner of the Boomer Art Prize, selected by judges Constantin Cosmin, Anthony Fawcett, Jo McLaughlin and Tabish Khan.2023 - Women of the Year, London 2023 - Benson Sedgwick Metal Fabrication - Artist in Residence, Essex2022 - Gilbert Bayes Award, Royal Society of Sculptors, London 2022 - Ingram Prize, London 2021 - UK New Artist of the Year Award, supported byRobert Walters presented by the Saatchi Gallery, London 2021-22 – Muse Gallery 269 selected as Artist in Residence, London 2021-2023 – SET Studio Prize winner, Woolwich 2020 - Mark Tanner Sculpture Award Graduate Residency, StandpointGallery, London 2019 – Emerging Artist Award, British Council, Berlin, Germany Selected exhibitions: 2024 - The CASS Art Prize, group exhibition, Copeland Gallery, London 2024 - Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London2024 - I am the Landscape solo exhibition, the Muse Gallery, London2024 - AS OLD AS THE HILLS Group exhibition, Zig Zag Glastonbury2024 - Everyday Monuments, theSaatchi Gallery, London, curated by Paul Foster 2023 - 2024 - Relics of the Future The Art House,Wakefield 2023 - MATTER, Flowers Gallery, Kingsland Road, curated by Jo Dennis 2023 - A New Dawn, a New Day, curated by Pallas Citroen The Bomb Factory, London2023 - Giantic Pile, Chelsea FlowerShow, Saatchi Gallery Garden ‍