Cate Smith
Born 1971
Lives and works in Edinburgh and Glasgow
Education
2018-2023 PhD Fine Art (Painting), The Glasgow School of Art
2013-2014 MLitt Fine Art Practice, Merit award, The Glasgow School of Art
2010-2013 BA (Hons) Painting, First Class, Edinburgh College of Art
Exhibitions
2017 From Paper to Gold, 50th Anniversary, Edinburgh Printmakers
2017 This Must Be The Place, solo exhibition, Eyemouth Hippodrome, Scottish Borders
2017 Sound Thought Festival, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
2016 Time Is All Around, Edinburgh Printmakers
2016 Salon-athon, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh
2016 Transition, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall
2015 Suck and See, Garage, part of Embassy Biennale, Edinburgh
2015 Get In Lane, Graduate Show, Catalyst Arts, Belfast
2015 Salontology, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh
2014 Line of Best Fit, Settlement Projects, Edinburgh
2014 Black Cube Collective Annual Exhibition, St Margaret’s House, Edinburgh
2014 Postgraduate Degree Show, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow
2014 Screenplay, Garage, Edinburgh Arts Festival and SWG3 Glasgow
2014 Information, part of Generation, Paisley Museum and Art Gallery, Paisley
2014 Volume 1, Iota Gallery, Glasgow
2014 Salonely, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh
2013 London Art Book Fair, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2013 Degree Show, Edinburgh College of Art
2013 Encounters:Represent, Present, Re-Present, InSpace, Edinburgh
2013 Ortonandon Salonandon, French Riviera Gallery, London
2013 Whisper Down the Wind, Panoply Performance Lab and Immaterial Museum of Scotland, Brooklyn International Performance Festival, New York and Inverleith House, Edinburgh
2013 Afterword: Contemporary Responses to Peploe, Keiler Library, Modern 2, Edinburgh
2013 Defcon Salon 1, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh
2012 Flatpack, Old Ambulance Depot, Edinburgh
2012 Transatlantic Fun-O-Pack, Edinburgh College of Art and Boston School of the Museum of Fine Art, USA
2012 Hypolix, Whitespace, Edinburgh
2011 Intimate Space by Georgia Creimer, 3rd Olympic Village, Innsbruck, Austria
2011 Polyphonic, Wee Red Lounge, Edinburgh College of Art
Awards
2019-21 Sir Richard Stapley Educational Trust
2018-20 Scottish International Education Trust
2018/20 The Ruby and Will George Trust Award
2018-20 Merchant Company of Edinburgh
2018 The Sir Harry Barnes Scholarship, The Glasgow School of Art
2017 Visual Arts Award, City of Edinburgh Council and Creative Scotland
2013 Helen A Rose Bequest Award, Edinburgh College of Art
Residencies/ Projects
2017 Hippodrome, Eyemouth, Scottish Borders
2016 Album artwork, Kubov
2016 Transition, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall
2013 Dumfries House Residency, Cumnock, Scotland
Conferences/ Artist Talks
2024 Symposium: Painting in the Expanded Field, MTU Crawford, Cork, Ireland
2019 International Conference on Contemporary European Painting, Porto, Portugal
2018 Postgraduate Research Symposium, The Glasgow School of Art
2017 Artist Talk, Hippodrome, Eyemouth, Scottish Borders
2017 Graphic Notation, Sound Thought Festival, CCA, Glasgow
2016 Time Is All Around, Edinburgh Printmakers
2016 Transition: In Conversation with Blair Todd and James Thurgood, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall
Teaching
2019-21 Graduate Teaching Assistant, The Glasgow School of Art