Catriona Gallagher

Catriona Gallagher (UK/IE b.1991) is a visual artist and filmmaker based between the UK and Greece. Her work moves between film, drawing, writing and installation and navigates the overlooked details in our physical surroundings and the psychological landscapes mirroring them. She has exhibited in the UK, Ireland, Greece, Italy and France, and her films have premiered at London Short Film Fest, Aesthetica, Sheffield Doc Fest, Ann Arbor, New Holland Island and Laterale film festivals. In 2020-2021 she was Artist in Residence at Visual Arts in Rural Communities in Northumberland for the Arts Council England funded ENTWINED programme. She was the Bridget Riley Fellow at the British School at Rome 2022-23. 

Catriona is a co-founder of A - DASH project space and studios in Athens, which she ran with Eva Isleifs, Noemi Niederhauser and Zoe Hatziyanaki between 2016 and 2019. She is a current Associate Member of the NewBridge Project, Gateshead, an active member of Pavilion Artists' Moving Image Network and former studio holder at Rhubaba, Edinburgh. 

Solo exhibitions

Sketches for an Artificial Forest, curated by Naomi Draper, Roscommon Arts Centre, Ireland, Nov-Dec 2023

ART DINERS: Myth, curated by Irene Machetti, Alessia Simonetti andMarta Gaudino, Villino Sartorio, Rome, October 2023

The Plant in the City, A - DASH project space, Athens, Greece, September 2018

The Collector’s Archive, Praxitelous 33, Athens, Greece, January - February 2016

Group exhibitions

2023

Roma: A Portrait. Festival of foreign Culture Academies andInstitutes. Curated by Cecilia Canziani, Palazzo delle Esposizioni,Rome, Italy, May-July 2023.

On the Meaning of ‘Gossip’, group exhibitioncurated by Marta Pellerini, British School at Rome, June 2023.

Winter Open Studios, British School at Rome, Italy, Mar 2023.

2022

AutumnOpen Studios, British School at Rome, December 2022.

2021

ENTWINED, group exhibition, Assembly House, Newcastle, December 2021.

Amongst the Garbage and the flowers, group exhibition, Le 6B Center of Contemporary Art, Paris, October 2021.

ENTWINED, group exhibition, VARC, Northumberland, September 2021

No-body’s Room - online group exhibition, LUX and The Room Projects, Paris, January 2021

2020

Back Home, virtual groupexhibition, Snehta, Athens, Dec 2020 – Jan 2021

Thresholds, online group exhibition curated by Aidan Moesby, MIMA, Middlesbrough, October 2020 - March 2021.

as tree, group exhibition curated by Shane Finan, St George's Hall, Tubbercurry, Co. Sligo, Ireland, October 2020 (postponed)

2019

Kypselian Salon, Snehta, Athens, Greece, December 2019

Ruskin School of Art MFA Degree Show, University of Oxford, June 2019

2018

A Field Guide to Getting Lost, curated by Ismene King and Amalia Charikopoulou, T.A.F. Athens, Greece, July – September 2018

Micro, curated by Eva Isleifs, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, UK, September 2018

2017

Athina Garden City: by Catriona Gallagher and Fanis Kafantaris, A - DASH, Athens, Greece, Apr-Sep 2017

The Sun is Barred From Entering: group exhibition at Routes in Marpissa Festival, Paros, Greece, August 2017

Heatwave: group exhibition of artists books, State of Concept, Athens, Greece, January 2017

2016

AtWork artist books lab: run by 3 137, State of Concept Gallery, Athens, November 2016

2015

Along Those Lines: curator of screening of artists’ video featuring John Smith, Luke Burton, Kirstie Forbes, Rosie Sillitoe, Theodoros Zafeiropoulos, and Catriona Gallagher at 3 137, Athens, Greece, 5th September 2015

Curious Artefacts: group exhibition curated by Becky Campbell, The Art Wall, Athens, Greece, September 2015

The Garden with the Sculptures: group exhibition, RePark at the occupied Green Park, Athens, Greece, June 2015

Setting: curated by Becky Campbell, Snehta Residency, Athens, Greece, March 2015

2014

Another Athens: group text exhibition, Interview Room 11, Edinburgh, December 2014

Babylon Radio: group project, radio show broadcaster, 3 137, Athens, Greece, 6-9 November 2014

Things Are Different Now: Platform Project group exhibition at ArtAthina art fair, Athens, Greece, May 2014

Studi Aperti: trio exhibition, 33OC, Toffia, Lazio, Italy, April 2014

2013

Unsettled Certainties: duo exhibition, Snehta Residency, Athens, Greece, November 2013

ex: blipblipblip, Leeds, UK, September 2013

Daphne was a torso ending in leaves (2023):

AtoposCVC screening programme for The Office of Hydrocommons,Athens, April 2023.

Pavilion Artists Moving Image Network, Leeds,Jun 2023.

Fondazione Giuliani, Daphneon film: screening and round table [work in progress]. Rome, Italy, Mar 2023.

They met under a ceiling of sky (2021):

Ribalta Experimental Film Festival -They met under a ceiling of sky. Italy, Mar 2023.

Aesthetica Film Festival, (programmed by Tape Collective), York, UK, 6th November 2022.

London Short Film Festival, (UK Festival Premiere), ICA, 16th January 2022.

No-body’s Room - LUX and The Room Projects, Paris, January 2021

Pavilion Artists Moving Image Network, screening of They met under a Ceiling of sky, Leeds,Dec 2020.

Laterale Film Festival, Cosenza, Italy, (World Festival Premiere), September 2020

Degree Show, Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University, UK, June 2019

Video Villanelle (for distance) [2020]:

Thresholds, online group show curated by Aidan Moesby, MIMA Middlesbrough, UK, Oct 2020 - Mar 2021

Sheffield Doc Fest, UK (World Festival Premiere), Northern Focus Programme, 13th Jun 2021

Perdikaki (2019):

ART DINERS: Myth, Villino Sartorio, Rome, Italy, October 2023

Parsec,screening of Perdikaki, for Terrapolis – archeologie di future, Bologna,Italy, Sep 2023

British School at Athens, screeningof Perdikaki, Friends’ Lecture programme, Greece, May 2023

Among the garbage and the flowers: group exhibition, Le 6b Center of Contemporary Art, Paris, France, October 2021

as tree, group exhibition, Co Sligo, Ireland, September 2020

Echo: screening of New Holland Island competition winners, the Garage Museum, Moscow, September 2020.

New Holland Island Film International Debut Film Festival, St Petersburg, (Russian Premiere), August 2020 - Special Mention in the Short Film Competition 

58th Ann Arbor Film Festival, MI, (World Festival Premiere), 28th March 2020

St Hugh's College, Oxford: 25th May 2019

A - DASH, Athens, exhibition The Plant in the City, 12-16th Sep 2018

Other films:

Time by Light screened at Routes in Marpissa Festival, Paros, Greece, during exhibition The Sun is Barred From Entering,  August 2017.

The Flight of 243 Bougainvillea, screened at CCA, Glasgow during event The Shock of Victory ‘At least some sentiments were expressed, ifnot all’: group screening and reading curated by Joanna Peace and Serra Tansel, 27th September 2015

Along Those Lines screened at 3 137, Athens, curator and exhibitor, 5th Sep 2015

The Flight of 243 Bougainvillea, screened at Syros International Film Festival Khora Residency screening, The Apollo Theatre, Hermoupolis, Syros, July 2015

A– DASH, Athens: curator, programmer and initiator of projects, screenings andexhibitions, and texts for press releases, May 2016–Dec 2018

-         Programmer: Cameo, solo exhibition and residency by Luke Burton, Apr-May 2019

-         Programmer, curator, writer: Fractoids, solo exhibition byChristos Bourantas, Jul 2018

-         Facilitator: Food of the Gods, solo exhibition by Lydia McCarthy,Jun 2018

-         Programmer, facilitator: Calvin & Ancient Times, film productionand screenings by Calvin Laing, Jun 2018

-         Programmer, curator, writer: Undercurrent, solo exhibition andperformances by Alyssa Moxley, Jan 2018

-          Facilitator: Fresh Ear, screening at workshop by Helene Comball Weiss, Oct 2017

-         Programmer, curator: Bring Them Back Alive, screening by Bryony MayDunne, in AGC, Sep 2017

-         Programmer, facilitator, writer: And the sun keeps coming up, livemusic performance, May 2017

-         Initiator, curator, writer: Athina Garden City part 1 and part 2,Apr and Sep 2017

-         Facilitator: I hope my legs don’t break, art film screeningseries, 4 parts between Mar – Nov 2017

-          Co-curator, facilitator: I remember not remembering it very well,  Jan - Feb 2017

Along Those Lines, screening of artist's film at 3 137 Athens, Sep 2015: selection of films and videos exploring line and architecture, featuringJohn Smith, Luke Burton, Kirstie Forbes, Rosie Sillitoe, Theodoros Zafeiropoulos

Pavilion Artists’ Moving Image Network, online, Leeds, Jun2023.

An Athenian plant through time: a screening and artist's talk, BritishSchool at Athens, May 2023.

ENTWINED conference,conversation with Michael Pattison, VARC/Newcastle University, Dec 2021.

Daphne on film: screening and round table, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, Italy, Mar 2023.

Pavilion Moving Image Network, Leeds, June 2021 (online).

Berwick Visual Arts Pecha Kucha, December 2020 (online).

Pavilion Moving Image Network, Leeds, December 2020 (online).

Thresholds exhibition Q&A, MIMA and Disability Arts online, 28th October 2020 (online).

Open Studio, Visual Arts in Rural Communities, ENTWINED residency, 30th September 2020 (online).

Artist’s talk at Dilston Physic Garden as artist in residence, July 2017.

Invited speaker at Space Revolution as part of A-DASH project space, Athens Biennale, Greece, 21st May 2016.

Invited speaker at Platform Projects Talks, Art Athina 2016, Athens, Greece, 29th May 2016.

Artist’s talk, invited speaker, Movement Gallery, Worcester, UK, April 2015.

A Want for Wild, published in Reseeding: Restoring Wildness at Kielderhead Wildwood, 2023.

Pellitory of the Wall: artist’s book, 97 pages, independently published, printed by K. Pletsas, Athens, Sep 2018

Map Magazine: Review of Plant Scenery of the World at Inverleith House, 9th Aug 2017

Another Athens: Urban Voids as a Symbol of Another Athens, Edinburgh, Dec 2015

(Re)Currencies, text for duo exhibition David Whelan and Charlotte Cousins, Snehta Residency, Athens, May 2015

Line Magazine, issue 11: Humour is a Slippery Fish: a conversation between Catriona Gallagher and Siân Robinson Davies, Sep 2014

The British School at Rome, Italy, Sep 2022-Mar 2023.

Creative Ireland 'Wings' Resident, Roscommon Arts Centre, Ireland, July-August 2022.

ENTWINED programme residency at VARC, Northumberland, UK, July 2020 - April 2021.

Residency at Dilston Physic Garden, Northumberland, UK, July 2017.

Khôra Residency, Syros International Film Festival, Syros, Greece, June-July 2015.

33 Officina Creativa, Toffia, Lazio, Italy, April 2014.

Snehta Residency, Athens, Greece, October-November 2013.

Bridget Riley Fellowship, The British School at Rome, 2022-23.

Creative Ireland 'Wings' Resident at Roscommon Arts Centre, Ireland, 2022.

Special Mention in the Short Film Programme of the New Holland Island Film Festival - Perdikaki, 2020.

Doctoral Training Partnership, AHRC, for MFA at Ruskin School of Art, 2018-19. 

Barbinder Watson Travel Grant, St Hugh’s College, Oxford, 2019.

Shortlisted for St Hugh’s Creative Writing Award, selected by Sarah Howe, 2019.

Barns Graham Travel to Italy Award, 2013.

Public Engagement and Development Officer, British School at Athens, Jun 2023-present.

Research Assistant to Dr Louise S. Milne, University of Edinburgh: film editing, scribing, research and referencing, publication proofreading and consistency checking, Sep 2021-Jun 23.

Visiting Lecturer, MA fine art course, Edinburgh College of Art, February 2022.

Visiting Lecturer – Fine Art BAcourse, Newcastle University, Oct-Dec 2021.

Guest Lecturer – Fine ArtDepartment, Northumbria University, Oct 2021.

Artists’ Film workshop leader– 3 part Artists’ Moving Image workshop on filming, editing and sound recording with BA Fine Art course, Newcastle University, as VARC AiR, Feb 2021.

Art Film Network Athens, September 2019 - March 2020.

Host for invited speakers, Ruskin School of Art visiting artists and speakers programme, Joan Jonas in conversation with Daria Martin and Samson Kambalu,  May 2019; Margaret Salmon, host for invited speaker, Nov 2018.

A - DASH studio holder, co-curator, co-administrator and co-programmer of projects, exhibitions and events, May 2016 - December 2018.

Co-founder of A - DASH project space and studios with artists Eva Isleifsdottir, Noemi Niederhauser, Zoe Hatziyannaki, Athens, Greece, from May 2016. 

OpenGround: selected participant for professional development workshop hosted by State of Concept Gallery and the Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, November 2016.

Snehta Residency collaborator, Athens: assisting with critique and research for resident artists, Aug 2014 - present.

Guest teaching at Leeds College of Art Foundation in Art and Design, Fine Art specialism, Feb 2014.

Artists’ Assistant for Leeds United: assistant in producing newly commissioned MOMA work on location in Scotland. Filming, fabrication, logistics and transport roles, June 2013.

Install Assistant at Edinburgh Art Festival: 2 person install team for video installation for Leeds United and Paul Rooney exhibiting at Edinburgh Art Festival, July - August 2013.

Studio holder at Rhubaba, Edinburgh, June-December 2013.

MFA – The Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University 2018-19: Distinction. Full scholarship: AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership

BA (Hons) Sculpture – Edinburgh College of Art, 2010-13: First Class Hons 

Foundation Diploma in Art and Design – Leeds College of Art, 2009-10: Distinction