Artist Statement
Cathy Scullion is a visual artist based in Belfast. She takes a multi-disciplinary, conceptual approach to her work, exploring ways in which material and process can be used to express human emotion and experience as well as to explore power relations within society on both a micro and macro level.
Holding factors such as time, process and tactility in high regard, the methods used in the creation and display of her work are quite ritualistic and repetitive, often acting as a form of meditation and self-reflection.
Cathy has been a member of Vault Artist Studios since 2018. She holds a First class Honours BA Fine Art from Ulster University, Belfast and a First class Honours MA Art Research Collaboration from IADT, Dublin. She has been awarded residencies with Belfast Print Workshop and Seacourt Print Workshop, received Arts Council NI, Freelands Foundation and a-n The Artist Information Company funding.
Cathy has exhibited widely. Solo exhibitions include continuous fragmentation, Vault Gallery & Project Space, Belfast (Sept 2024) & As I Cannot Write, Vault Canteen Gallery, Belfast (Aug 2021). Group exhibitions include, [de]fragmentation, QSS Gallery, Belfast (April 2025), Let’s Pause, NI Mental Health Arts Festival 2024 – Belfast School of Art UU (May 2024), Buttermilk Moving Image Exhibition, Vault Gallery & Project Space (Nov 2023), Now That’s What I Call Vault, MART Gallery Rathmines, Dublin, (Feb – March 2023), wax rhapsodic, The Lab Gallery, Dublin (January 2022) & Trilateral, PS2 Gallery, Belfast (August 2019)
