Cathy Wilkes
We lived in a blockade of inimical forces. One moved quietly and carefully so as not to disturb anything. I wanted to be as small as an atom, even a lepton or a quark. I am an epitome and a subsistent operator. I knew I was the oppressor - so how can I be the liberator.
In proximity to the violence and death, the propinquity resulted in introversion. So much talk on that line and all the worry about it buried us all. We weren’t used to looking at things in what you would call, the light.
Cathy Wilkes
The translucency of Wilkes’s ethereal materials when viewed in natural light awaken our sensitivity to the apparitions that appear throughout the space. Wilkes’s works escape definition – thus freeing it from limitations – and instead offers moments of pause and reflection.
The artist would like to thank Adrien Howard, Jen Martin, Charlotte Edwards, Joy Wilkes and Alistair Gow for their help.

Pigment and gum arabic on linen, fabric, thread, wire and acrylic
Dimensions variable, Painting: 122 x 244 x 3 cm, 48 1/8 x 96 1/8 x 1 1/8 in

Soft ground and dry point etching on paper
3 parts each 38 x 47 x 4 cm, 15 x 18 1/2 x 1 5/8 in framed, Edition of 5

Dry point etching on paper
38 x 47 x 4 cm, 15 x 18 1/2 x 1 5/8 in framed, Edition of 5

Pigment and gum arabic on Pineapple Cloth
56 x 60 x 2 cm, 22 1/8 x 23 5/8 x 3/4 in

Dry point etching on paper
38 x 47 x 4 cm, 15 x 18 1/2 x 1 5/8 in framed, Edition of 5

Pigment and gum arabic on Pineapple Cloth
60 x 46 x 2 cm 23, 5/8 x 18 1/8 x 3/4 in

Cardboard, paper, wire and acrylic
150 x 69.5 x 40 cm, 59 1/8 x 27 3/8 x 15 3/4 in

Pigment and gum arabic on Pineapple Cloth
55 x 51 x 2 cm, 21 5/8 x 20 1/8 x 3/4 in

Dry point etching on paper
38 x 47 x 4 cm, 15 x 18 1/2 x 1 5/8 in framed, Edition of 5

Dry point etching on paper
38 x 47 x 4 cm, 15 x 18 1/2 x 1 5/8 in framed, Edition of 5
Wilkes has exhibited internationally, with selected exhibitions including: ‘138th Annual Exhibition’, Ulster Museum, Belfast (2019); ‘The State We Are In. Collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw’, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin (2018); ‘A Slight Ache’, Chapter, Cardiff (2018); Yale Union, Portland (2018); MoMA PS1, New York (2017); The Modern Institute, Glasgow (2016); Tate Liverpool (2015) touring to LENTOS Kunstmuseum, Linz (2015); Museum Abteiberg, Moenchengladbach (2015 – 2016); and ‘GENERATION 2014’, Tramway, Glasgow (2014).