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Education & Qualifications:
2008 Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute
2003-2005 Masters in Landscape Design, University of Sheffield (Distinction)
1999-2002 BA(Hons) Fine Art, Bath School of Art & Design (2:1). Specialised in painting and printmaking.

Select Exhibitions, Projects & Awards:

Art in the Gardens, Sheffield, Premier Artists area, September 2012
‘Urban’ at Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield, June 2012
Gage Gallery, Kelham Island Arts Cooperative, Lion Works, May 2012
Winning entry for Brochure/Poster Artwork for 2012 Artists’ Open Studios
‘Currently Crafted’, The Orangery, Wakefield, March-April 2012 (with Pennine Artists)
Museums & Heritage Award for ‘Bury Mount’ restoration project, Towcester (Camlin Lonsdale), 2011
Corner Gallery, Heeley Bank, Sheffield, May 2011-present
Beady Eye Art, Group Show, Fulwood, Sheffield, March 2011
Artists’ Open Studios, Sheffield Cathedral, June 2010
‘The Art of Listening’ exhibition, Kelham Island, Sheffield, February 2010
CABE Building for Life Gold Award, Selwyn Street/Coppice Park (Camlin Lonsdale/TADW Architects), 2006
Mural, Kettlebridge Doorstep Green, Sheffield, Aug 2005 (Community Project)
Theatre Set painting & mural, Magna Centre, Rotherham, 2004
Permanent work at The Gallery salon, Kirkburton, Huddersfield, June 2004 (Commission)
Cupola Gallery, Drawing Exhibition (awarded 1st Prize ) Sheffield, Feb 2003
Summer Show, Cooper Gallery, Barnsley, Summer 2002
Student Exhibition, Truman Brewery, London, July 2002
Northern Lights Exhibition, Walcot Chapel, Bath, October 2001
Group Show at Windows Art Centre, Bath, June 2001
The Hotbath Gallery, Bath, Oct 2000

Catherine Higham

Painter

"Drawing is a medium I love and it is fundamental to my work. Drawn marks are used within
my paintings and prints, as a tool for developing ideas, sketching on site, and of course as a
medium in its own right.

Although each piece derives from a specific place, journey or experience, my artwork aims to
provoke an emotional response in the viewer; to pull them into the surface of the work and
encourage individual interpretation. My work often revisits themes of mapping, marks, traces,
erasure, transience, light, the passage of time and the sublime.

Since the birth of my baby last year, familiar walks through local landscapes take on a new,
enhanced meaning. When accompanied by a young child, the ordinary becomes captivating,
revelatory in fact.

I was born in Sheffield and currently live in the Loxley valley. I graduated in 2002 with a degree in Fine Art from Bath School of Art & Design (specialising in Painting) and then went on to study for a Masters in Landscape Design at the University of Sheffield. Since then, I have combined a career working as a Landscape Architect with the pursuit of my own artwork practice. Other activities include a tutoring role at the University of Sheffield's Landscape Department, focusing on art-based approaches to landscape design." Catherine Higham