Cat Auburn
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Cat Auburn (she/her) is an Aotearoa/Scottish artist living in Argyll, working at the intersection of contemporary visual art and heritage craft. She specialises in sculptural, moving image, and textile-based processes, using these techniques to reveal hidden socio-political histories. Cat’s practice is rooted in handmaking, material exploration, and embodied knowledge production to investigate cultural memory, national identity, and cultural policy.
Her projects are developed in collaboration with various communities, including rural and equestrian groups, textile practitioners, and heritage industry workers. She enjoys developing and delivering ambitious artistic projects that encourage both collaborators and audiences to engage in active questioning through artistic materials and practices.
Her project exploring historically informed craft processes and war inheritances gained national recognition with The Horses Stayed Behind(2012–2015), which won Best Regional Art Exhibition at the New Zealand Museum Awards (2016) and toured museums for three years. Cat recently completed a practice-based PhD at Northumbria University (AHRC-funded, 2019–2023). In 2024, she undertook the Te Whare Hēra artist residency (NZ) with artist Christine Borland, participated in a Royal Scottish Academy residency at Cove Park, and received a Visual Artist and Craft Maker Award (Creative Scotland) to conduct practice-based research on South Korean handmade craft traditions.
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