Catherine Ward
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Catherine Ward (b.2000) is an Irish artist working with painting, photography and drawing.
She is currently based in London, UK. She is studying an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art.
Her work is inspired by landscapes marked by human interventions. And is a mediation on the material condition of land expressed as a finite resource. Using a camera drone, she captures aerial perspectives of the land. Drawing from this photographic material, on-location sketches and found film material, she combines different sources to create the basis for her paintings.
There is a direct relationship between the marks on the canvas and those on the surface of the landscape. And a sense of both presence and absence in the work; the recognisable and the abstract. Ward also collects and uses materials found at mining sites such as yellow ochre as part of her practice.
Recent solo exhibitions include What Remains, Farmleigh House & Estate, Dublin (2025). Selected group exhibitions include Connections, Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin; Luan Gallery, Athlone; Down Arts Centre, Downpatrick; Braid Mid-Antrim Centre, Ballymena (2025), the ladder is always there with Shell/ter collective, Draiocht Gallery, Dublin (2024) and Collective Residue, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin (2023). She has won awards such as the George Moore Scholarship (2024), Arts Council of Ireland Agility Award (2023), the Thomas Dammann Junior Memorial Trust Award (2023) and her work is held in the OPW Irish State Art Collection.