about

Catherine is a multi-form artist whose work responds to place. Since graduating from the National Art School in Sydney, NSW, Catherine has been the recipient of three major art awards, Emerging Artist on the Rocks, Sydney (2006), The Waverly Art Prize (2007) and a residency at the Onslow Storrier Studio at the Cite Des Arts International Paris (2008) through the National Art School. Her work is held in private and public collections around Australia. In 2011 she was successful in securing a Regional Arts Fund (RAF) grant to do the major Public Art Project The Sea Hammock – What Lies Beneath and has subsequently been the feature artist on two RAF funded Projects including The Wisdom of the Elders Project (2012 – Video) and The Portland Botanical Gardens Art and Community Engagement Project (2013 – Painting/Photography/Installation). In 2014 Catherine initiated and facilitated the establishment of ‘The Space’, a short term, self funded residency for writers and artists and the Virtual Arboretum Portland, a four artist, interactive, installation project with public art outcomes. She was also Artist in Residence at the Narrawong District Primary School, as part of the Creative Art’s Artists in Schools Program using street art techniques to build a community mural called The Sea Creatures Street Art Project. Shedding a light on Orford was a project made for the Moyne Shire’s Pitch Project in 2015. In 2016 Catherine was part of the team for the successful Kang-o-Meerteek Small Town Transformation Project for Narrawong in Victoria. Currently she is working in collaboration with an ecologist, to bring to life a sculptural outdoor learning space and indigenous garden, called the DIGS project. This project has been supported by the Geoff and Helen Handbury Foundation.

In recent years Catherine’s paintings and installations have been exhibited in the Wyndham Art Prize and Chippendale New World Art Prize in Sydney. In 2018 she created an interactive art space titled Sink or Swim, for a weeks duration, for the Biennale of Australian Art in Ballarat.

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Education

2015-2015 Certificate 4 in Small Business, RMIT, Melbourne.
2002-2005 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Honours, National Art School (N.A.S). Darlinghurst, Sydney
2001-2001 Certificate 4 in Assessment and Work Place Training. College of Technology, Sydney
1999-2000 Certificate in Design and Multimedia. Design Centre, Enmore, Sydney

Awards

2010 Awarded Portland Upwelling Festival Installation Prize
2008 Awarded Paris Residency at the NAS Onslow Storrier Studio at the Cite International Des Arts
2007 Awarded Waverly Arts Prize. Waverly, Sydney
2006 Awarded Art on the Rocks Emerging Artist Prize. The Rocks, Sydney
2005 MCQ Art Prize 2005, Finalist, Museum of Contemporary Art. Sydney
2005 Willoughby Art Prize 2005, Finalist. Chatswood, Sydney
2004 Awarded Lawson Hill Estate Residency Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Painting, N.A.S. Darlinghurst, Sydney
2004 Awarded Robin Gibson Gallery Award for Outstanding Achievement in Painting, N.A.S. Darlinghurst, Sydney

Grants

2016 Helen and Geoff Handbury Fellowship
2015 Moyne Shire Arts Pitch Project Grant
2014 Creator/facilitator and one of four feature artists on the Project Virtual Arboretum Portland. Regional Arts Fund Project Grant
2014 Feature artist for Vicarts Artist in schools grant, Narrawong School
2013 Feature artist for Regional Arts Fund ‘Toe in the Water’ Grant, Portland Botanical Gardens Community Engagement Project.
2012 Glenelg Shire Community Arts Grant
2011 Feature Artist/Applicant Regional Arts Fund ‘Toe in the Water’ Grant. Project “What Lies Beneath”
2008 FONAS Travel Grant
2007 Portland Arts Council Small Arts Grant. Portland, Victoria
2007 Alcoa Aluminium Arts Grant. Portland, Victoria

Residencies
2012 Moyne Shire Arts and Culture Committee Residency in Yambuk
2008 Paris Residency at the NAS Onslow Storrier Studio at the Cite International Des Arts
2005 June Hedditch Residency. Portland, Victoria
2005 Lawson Hill Estate Residency. Mudgee

Exhibitions
2016 The Chippendale New World Art Prize, Sydney, NSW
2016 The Wyndham Art Prize, Werribee, Victoria
2015 Shedding a light On Orford, Orford, Victoria
2014 The Virtual Arboretum Portland, Portland, Victoria
2014 Four, Group Show, artist/curator, The Portland Art Centre. Portland
2013 12/12 Environmental Change – A Visual Response, Group Show, artist/curator
The Portland Art Centre. Portland.
2012 12/12 Environmental Change – A Visual Response, Group Show, artist/curator
The Portland Art Centre. Portland
2012 Resident in, Group Show, Blarney Book, Port Fairy
2011 What Lies Beneath, Portland Foreshore, Portland
2010 Plastic Bags, Portland Arts Company, Portland
2009 Camouflage, Group Show, Project Contemporary Art Space, Wollongong
2009 Mountain, City, Sea, Group Show. Sheffer Gallery. Darlington, Sydney
2008 Totally Unrelated, Group Show. Sheffer Gallery. Darlington, Sydney
2008 Group Show, St Vincent’s Hospital. Darlinghurst, Sydney
2007 Waverly Art Prize, Waverly, Sydney
2007 The Churchie Emerging Art Prize, Brisbane
2006 Night Swimming, Solo Show, Sheffer Gallery. Darlington, Sydney
2006 Art on the Rocks, Group Show, Sydney Harbour Authority. The Rocks, Sydney
2006 New Paintings, Group Show, St Vincent’s Hospital. Darlinghurst, Sydney
2005 Wood Wind Water 11, Solo Exhibition, Lawson Hill Estate. Mudgee
2000 Scapes, Solo Exhibition, Desaren Gallery. Surrey Hills, Sydney
1996 Red, Group Show, C.A.S.A. Gallery. Rozelle, Sydney

Publications/Radio/Television

2013 ABC Local Radio. 14 Jan, 2013 in Breakfast. Written and Produced by Jeremy Lee. http://www.abc.net.au/local/photos/2013/01/11/3668106.htm
2011 ABC Local Radio. 27 October, 2011 in Breakfast. Written and Produced by Jeremy Lee. http://www.abc.net.au/local/photos/2011/10/26/3348486.htm
2007 Radio National, 29th July 2007 in Hindsight. Written and Produced by Sue Anderson.
2005 Sun Herald, February 27, 2005 in In The Frame by Tim Benzie in the ‘Arts’ section (page S27)
2005 Portland Observer, March 25 in Come up and see Catherine’s Etchings by Shane Fowles in the Recreation, Arts and Entertainment section (page 13)

Other links
https://instagram.com/catandfin/
https://www.facebook.com/cat.bailey.92
https://www.facebook.com/virtualarboretum
http://www.virtualarboretum.com.au
VAP Portland – How to make a flower a billion times bigger

Community Arts
https://catbailey.wordpress.com/category/public-art-and-community-engagement/
https://catbailey.wordpress.com/2015/11/11/orford-photos-and-write-up/