Catherine Ward
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Catherine Ward (b.2000) is an Irish artist based in London working with painting and moving image. In 2025, she graduated with an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art.
Her work is inspired by landscapes marked by human interventions. Drawing from disused quarries, mines and industrial sites, her practice reflects on land as a finite and politicised material.
Using a camera drone, she captures aerial perspectives of the land. Taking this photographic material, on-location sketches and archival research, she combines sources to create the compositions for her paintings. In each painting, there is a direct relationship between the marks on the canvas and those on the surface of the landscape. Her approach to mark-making - scraping, staining and layering echoes geological processes. Ward also collects and uses found materials such as yellow ochre and anthracite. These are used both as pigments and applied to the surface of the canvas.
Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include the Victoria House Residency Exhibition with Noah Berrie, TKE Studios, Margate (2025) and What Remains, Farmleigh House & Estate, Dublin (2025).
Selected group exhibitions include Notes from the Studio, Incubator, London (2025), 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 received 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.