Morwenna Catt

Born UK.
Morwenna has a degree in Art & Design and graduated with a Masters in Fine Art from Leeds Metropolitan University. Her current practice includes textiles, painting, drawing, light boxes, installation and sculpture. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally; notably at The Museum of Arts and Design in New York, Galerija Skuc in Ljubljana and Jack the Pelican in New York.

She began to work with textiles as a post graduate student and is now best known for her embroidered 2D and sculptural works. For many years she has also designed and created extravagant costumes and public works.

Morwenna has worked as a resident artist within Museum settings producing new work and larger scale commissions in response to collections at historical venues including commissions for English Heritage.

Artist Statement:

I began my artistic career as a Painter & Illustrator but I’m now best known for my embroidered 2D and sculptural textiles. My work is playful with a dark, sometimes subversive, edge. I like to populate spaces with a menagerie of animal or half-animal creatures and they often have their roots in familiar archetypes from Fairy Tales or from a mythological and nostalgic past. I love folklo...

Education
2000 MA Fine Art, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds
1997 BA Art & Design, Bradford College of Art, Design & Textiles, Bradford

Solo exhibitions

2017 Songs from the Wood and other stories, Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield
2016 Sweethearts, Shire Hall Gallery, Stafford
2014 Charred Words for Old Birds, Epiphany Art Gallery, Wakefield
2013 Menagerie South Square Arts Centre, Thornton
2012 New Continental, "Up" exterior installation in Avenham Park + exhibition, Preston
2012 "Secret Tea Party" installation, Woodend, Scarborough
2010 Frou Frou, Fabric Gallery, Centenary Square, Bradford
2009 Minor Repairs, Brass Gallery, Leeds
2009 Poison, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford
2008 Frou-Frou, Unit 9 Gallery, Bradford
2007 Poison, South Square Gallery, Bradford
2006 AtoB, Gallerija Celica, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Selected Group exhibitions
2018 Craft and Conflict, Touring Exhibition, Highlights Contemporary Crafts, various Venues in the North of England
2018 Suffrage, Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre, S Wales
2017 International Textile Biennial, Haacht, Belgium
2017 Perception, Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield
2017 Human Kind, Stories from Wild Women, Aire Place Studios, Leeds,
2016 Decadent Drawing invoke Dark Arts, Whitby Paviilion, Whitby
2016 Threads, Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury, Wiltshire
2016...