Cathy Wilkes

Colour photograph of a woman standing in a large room with peach-coloured walls. Two small fabric pieces hand on the wall to the left. Large windows cast a blue hue across the space.

Dates and Opening times

Fri 5 - Wed 19 Aug

Mon - Fri, 10am - 6pm

Sat & Sun 12pm - 5pm

After GI, the exhibition continues until 19 Aug

Opening time thereafter

Tue - Fri 11am - 6pm

Sat 12pm - 5pm

Venue

The Modern Institute 1-3 Aird's Lane G1 5HU

Participants

Cathy Wilkes

Presented by

The Modern Institute

Accessiblity

Level Access, Step Free: The venue has ramped or level access and/or lifts to upper floors

Toilets: The venue has toilets available for visitors, but these are not accessible

Gender Neutral Toilets: The venue has toilets not separated by gender or sex

Cathy Wilkes’ exhibition is comprised of new sculptures and paintings installed at The Modern Institute, Aird’s Lane.

Cathy grew up in a working-class area of East Belfast and moved to Glasgow aged 19, in 1985. Her art and writing are introspective and sometimes at the edge of legibility. At the same time, out of Cathy’s non-dualist world emerge figures and objects which are potently direct and seditious.

This exhibition is part of a larger group of new works which will be shown at The Model in Sligo, Eire, in September 2026.

Cathy won the Maria Lassnig Prize in 2018, represented Scotland at 51st Venice Biennial in 2005 and Britain at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019. Cathy was a founding member of Castlemilk Womanhouse, Dalriada Gallery and Glendale Women’s Cafe Pollokshields.