Unearthed - Catriona Robertson

Unearthed - Catriona Robertson

Unearthed contemplates the idea of human-made landscapes where, overtime, layers of urban geology form — inviting reflection on a more-than-humanperspective.

Robertson imagines a post-human future in whichnature reclaims the city through the cracks of its concrete foundations. Erodedsurfaces, made from her signature material paper-concrete,emerge as relics excavated from imagined hybrid ecosystems — new-age sedimentsof the Anthropocene. As synthetic materials intertwine with the organic, theybegin to resemble precious marbles or future fossils.

Beneath our feet lies a subterranean network ofhidden cities, vibrating with unseen energy. By covering the ground withconcrete, tar, and bitumen, we disrupt the rhythm of natural ecological cycles— offering little or no benefit to the earth and further disconnectingourselves from the terra underfoot.

CatrionaRobertson 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.

Catrionahas recently won the 2024 Contemporary Art Development Award, as part of theCass Art Prize 2024. She won the Boomer Prize, selected by judges ConstantinCosmin, Anthony Fawcett, Jo McLaughlin and Tabish Khan with an exhibition atthe Boomer Gallery in Tower Bridge.

Catrionaalso had a solo show at the Muse Gallery and during a residency created anambitious site specific installation at the Zig Zag Building in Glastonbury aspart of Somerset Art Week. In January 2024 she showcased her monumentalsculptures 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’ atthe RHS Chelsea Flower Show Saatchi Gallery Garden. In 2022 she won the GilbertBayes Award selected by the Royal Society of Sculptors and was selected as thewinner of the Benson Sedgwick Metalworking Residency for 2022. In 2021 she wasawarded 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 shewon a Studio Prize at SET Woolwich. In 2020 the Standpoint Gallery selectedCatriona for a Graduate Residency, supported by the Mark Tanner SculptureAward. Catriona has shown her work nationally and internationally, includingwinning the Emerging Artist Award and exhibiting her with the British CouncilGermany in Berlin at the Liebermann Villa. She has done internationalresidencies 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 sculptureon the roof and at the entrance of the building supported by the Royal Societyof Sculptors.

     Education:

Royal College of Art, MA Sculpture in 2019 andstudied 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 byjudges 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, London

2024 - I am the Landscape solo exhibition, the Muse Gallery, London

2024 - AS OLD AS THE HILLS Groupexhibition, Zig Zag Glastonbury

2024 - 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 - ANew Dawn, a New Day, curated by Pallas Citroen The Bomb Factory, London2023 - Giantic Pile, Chelsea FlowerShow, Saatchi Gallery Garden

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