Annie Cattrell has been a tutor at the Royal College of Art since 2000 and has lectured in many art colleges including Edinburgh School of Art, Wimbledon School of Art, University of Gloucester, University of Ulster and Swansea Metropolitan University. She is senior research fellow in Sculpture at De Montfort University and external examiner in Fine Art at the University of Newcastle.
Cattrell’s practice as an artist is at times informed by working with specialists in neuroscience, meteorology, engineering, psychiatry and the history of science. This cross-disciplinary approach has enabled her to learn in depth about these fields and exposed her to cutting-edge research. She is particularly interested in the synthesis of art, science and the poetic.
Annie Cattrell was born in Glasgow and studied Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art and University of Ulster, and Ceramics & Glass at the Royal College of Art. She is senior research fellow in Sculpture at De Montfort University in Leicester and recently completed a residency based at The Pier Arts Centre in Orkney, where she worked with scientists from Herriot Watt University researching renewable energy using wave power.
She has completed residencies and fellowships at The Royal Institution of Great Britain, The Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Camden Art Centre, British School at Rome and the ACE Helen Chadwick Fellowship at Oxford University.
Cattrell’s solo exhibitions include Fathom at The Pier Arts Centre, Orkney; Anne Faggionato Gallery, London; From Within at the Faraday Museum, The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London; and All or Nothing at Berwick Gymnasium Gallery, Berwick-upon-Tweed. Her group exhibitions include Lonely at the Top at Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (MuHKA); Human+ at Science Gallery at Trinity College, Dublin; Out of the Ordinary at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Hybrid at Moving Image Centre, Auckland; Medicine and Art: Imaging the Future for Life and Love at Mori Museum, Tokyo; Not Nothing, curated by MuHKA, Mechelen; Invisible Worlds at Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany; The Body: Art and Science at Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, and Einfach Komplex, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich; and Paper Cuts at Fredericke Taylor Gallery, New York.
Cattrell’s work is owned by the Wellcome Trust, MacManus Gallery and Museum, Glasgow Art Galleries, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Edinburgh City Art Centre and many private collections. Recent commissions include Echo for the Forest of Dean Sculpture Trust and 0 to 10,000,000 for the award-winning New Biochemistry Department at Oxford University designed by architects Hawkins/Brown.
In 2008 she jointly won the international Bombay Sapphire Prize.