Catriona Beckett (she/her) b. 1996 is an artist based between Glasgow and Oslo who works at the intersection of two modes of creativity: process based image making and performative event making.

Catriona creates paintings, drawings and collages. Employing shape through deliberate simplicity and also through automatic brushwork, each method seeking to explore form in its wide scope. The specifics of material sensibilities are pertinent, as surface, colour and medium, are actors which come to construct the paintings.

The performance practice is a speculative lens for thinking through critical discourse surrounding painting. Thematic concerns associated with the practice are extended into surreal and informative narratives. Catriona explores visual abstraction and its layers - unknowability, playfulness, transformation - through performances informed by feminist science fiction, engaging directly with feminist and political discourse.

While the painting practice applies intuitive aesthetic sensibilities the performance practice is an investigation of the relationship between visual form and politics.

Email:

catriona(dot)beckett(at)outlook(dot)com

Catriona's CV can be viewed here.