Catherine Stewart

Catherine Stewart

Biography

Catherine Steward is a multi-award-winning artist, winning awards including the prestigious MAMA Art Prize in 2016. She is based in rural Victoria and has lived and worked in country settings. Her artworks reveal the infinite splendour of the country. Having an artist mother, Stewart was exposed to a professional art practice at a very young age. As a child she would sit on the dry and flat sandy plains and watch her mother paint, nurturing Stewart’s own connection to art and the outback. Her recent body of work further delves into this intimate connection by embodying the strength and the magnificence of the rural environment, exploring its sources, colours and shapes. Vivacious colours swirl like a storm in bold brushstrokes, creating a wild and untameable terrain that is filled with life and ferocity. Her stunning interpretation of native florals and birds against a dreamlike outback landscape showcases the intensity of her palette and the tenacity of her strokes. Her works are widely collected in private as well as in the public collection.

Exhibitions
2021 Resurgence, Solo Exhibition, Thienny Lee Gallery, Sydney NSW
2021 Regenerative Visions, Brunswick St Gallery, Brunswick, Victoria
2020 Take 6 for ‘IWD’, Group Exhibition, Thienny Lee Gallery, Sydney NSW
2019 Studio Exhibition, Albury NSW
2019 Group Show, Moree Gallery, Moree NSW
2017 Habitus, Solo Exhibition, MAMA Art Gallery Albury NSW
2015 My Terrain, Corner Store Gallery, Orange NSW
2015 On Your Mark- A Rural Perspective, Gallery 34, Yea, Vic
2015 Paper Trail- A North East Perspective, GIGS Gallery Wodonga Vic
2015 Feels Like Home, Paper Pear Gallery, Wagga Wagga NSW
2014 From Little Things…………, Spiritus Gallery, Yackandandah, VIC
2014 New Works – Catherine Stewart, Moree Gallery NW
2013 Beyond the Line, GIGS Gallery Wodonga VIC
2013 New Works – Catherine Stewart, Paper Pear Gallery, Wagga Wagga NSW
2012 Natural Instincts, Solo Exhibition, Moree Gallery NSW
2011 Rustica, Solo Exhibition, Griffith Regional Art Gallery NSW
2010 Terrain, Navigating New Landscapes, Collaborative Exhibition, Griffith Regional Art Gallery, Shear Outback, Hay
2009 “5×5” Collaborative Exhibition, Griffith Regional Art Gallery
2009 Simple Pleasures, Solo Exhibition, Cottage Gallery Griffith NSW

Art Awards
2019 Highly Commended, Trinity Art Show, Albury NSW
2018 Highly Commended, Trinity Art Show, Albury NSW
2016 Winner MAMA Art Prize, Albury NSW $20,000
2015 Highly Commended, Trinity Art Show Albury NSW
2014 Winner, Open Section, Aspects Art Show, Goondiwindi QLD
2013 Winner, Drawing and Contemporary Sections, Goondiwindi QLD
2012 Winner Drawing/ Contemporary sections Wagga Wagga Art Show, NSW
2012 Winner Drawing, Goondiwindi Art Exhibition QLD
2011 Highly Commended “Exposed” Art Exhibition, Griffith NSW
2011 Winner, Contemporary Section, Wagga Wagga Art Exhibition
2011 Winner, Drawing Section, Wagga Wagga Art Exhibition
2011 Highly Commended, Overall Winner, Wagga Wagga Art Exhibition
2010 Winner Exposed Art Exhibition Figure Drawing, Griffith NSW
2010 Highly Commended (Works on Paper) Corowa Art Exhibition
2010 Winner “Drawing” and “Contemporary” sections Mildura Art Show

Education
1995 BA (Visual Arts), Charles Sturt University.
2000 Diploma of Education (Teaching), Charles Sturt University.

Collection
Public Collection in Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA)
Private Collections in Australia and overseas including Portugal, Spain, Ireland, New Zealand, UK and the US.