Cathy Wilkes
Sun. 13 Sep. 2026 – Sun. 17 Jan. 2027

Preview: Sat. 12 Sep. 4 – 6pm

Come and visit me in a million years
At the curfew an alarm will sound
Over the rough field there’s a clear sky in the darkness
I will recognise you when you come to the door

Cathy Wilkes grew up in a working-class area of East Belfast and moved to Glasgow aged 19, in 1985. After returning to Ireland for four years, she has lived in Scotland since 1994. Her art and writing are introspective, and sometimes at the edge of legibility. At the same time, out of Wilkes’ non-dualist world emerge figures and objects which are potently direct and seditious. The exhibition includes three Untitled installations from 2026, 2024 and 2019 together with paintings and sculpture from the same period. Cathy Wilkes represented Britain at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019 and Scotland at the 51st Venice Biennial in 2005. She was the inaugural recipient of the Maria Lassnig Prize in 2017, marked by a solo exhibition at MoMA PS1, New York in 2018. In 2015, a touring exhibition bringing together more than a decade of Wilkes’ work was presented at Tate Liverpool, LENTOS Kunstmuseum, Linz and Museum Abteiberg, Möenchengladbach.

Her work is held in public collections at Tate Britain; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago and Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis. Wilkes was a founding member of Castlemilk Womanhouse, Dalriada Gallery and Glendale Women’s Cafe Glasgow.