Artist CV
Mixed media artist, painter, art teacher and self-confessed gypsy wanderer Cathy Shugg is endlessly inspired by the world around her.
Her art adventures, art residencies and art teaching take Cathy around the world, creating art in places as varied and challenging as the Antarctic and the Sahara. When "at home" in Australia, she works from her Bowral garden studio in the Southern Highlands and in Sydney, New South Wales.
Cathy creates contemporary paintings, collages and mixed media art for purchase and by commission. Her artworks are held in private and corporate collections in Australasia, Europe, the UK and North America.
Her art adventures, art residencies and art teaching take Cathy around the world, creating art in places as varied and challenging as the Antarctic and the Sahara. When "at home" in Australia, she works from her Bowral garden studio in the Southern Highlands and in Sydney, New South Wales.
Cathy creates contemporary paintings, collages and mixed media art for purchase and by commission. Her artworks are held in private and corporate collections in Australasia, Europe, the UK and North America.
Art Awards and Residencies
- 2023: Artist in Residence, La Porte Peinte Centre for the Arts, Burgundy France
- 2023: Finalist, Best of City and Country Art Awards, Bowral Art Gallery
- 2020: Commended Abstract Art, Art of Sydney Awards, National Maritime Museum Sydney
- 2018: Artist in Residence, NG Art Creative Residency, Provence France
- 2018: Third Prize Pastels, Ku-ring-gai Art Awards
- 2017: Artist in Residence, Chateau Orquevaux, Champagne France
- 2017: Highly Commended Drawing, Singleton Art Prize
- 2017: Second Prize Drawing, Ku-ring-gai Art Awards
- 2016: Silver Jubilee Trophy, Ku-ring-gai Art Awards
- 2016: Highly Commended Contemporary Painting, Singleton Art Prize
- 2004: First Prize Acrylic Painting, Second Prize Mixed Media, Ku-ring-gai Art Awards
- 2001: Highly Commended Still Life, Northholm Art Show
- 1997: Highly Commended Watercolour, Hornsby Art Prize
- 1993-2023: local and regional art show finalist, including Hunters Hill Art Prize, Singleton Art Prize, Sydney Royal Easter Show, Waverley Woollahra, Taree, Blacktown and Hornsby2018: Third Prize Pastels, Ku-ring-gai Art Awards
Selected Exhibitions
- 2022, 2023: Solo studio-gallery exhibition, Southern Highlands Art Trail
- 2022, 2023: Solo studio-gallery exhibition, The Pop-Up Project, Bowral
- 2022: The Pop-Up Project group exhibition, Bowral Art Gallery
- 2021: Light Colour Joy solo exhibition, Incinerator Art Space, Sydney
- 2019: Connexions Silencieuses group exhibition, Eglise St Laurent, Eygalières, France
- 2019: France: Histoires solo exhibition, Incinerator Art Space, Sydney
- 2018: Fire and Ice solo exhibition, Art Gallery on Darling, Sydney
- 2017: Far & Away solo exhibition, Art Gallery on Darling, Sydney
- 2017: Inland, Island, Coast 2-artist exhibition, Studio W Gallery, Sydney
- 2017: In the Landscape 2-artist exhibition, Percolator Gallery, Brisbane
- 2016: Trio Group exhibition, Studio W Gallery, Sydney
- 2015: Solo exhibition, Redleaf Gallery, Sydney
- 2016, 2012: Alumnow Pymble Group exhibition, Royal Art Society Gallery and PLC, Sydney
- 2009: Animals Asia Group exhibition, Red Square Art Gallery Sydney
- 2004: Terrey Hills Artists Group exhibition, The Homestead Sydney
- 2000: Paradise Found, Daintree Painters Group exhibition, KAC Sydney
- 1980: HSC Art Express NSW
Art Education and Associations
- BA Macquarie University, Dip Teach (Art major) Ku-ring-gai CAE, Grad Cert Vis Arts UTS
- 2018 - present: feature artist and teacher for Australian art societies and art groups
- 2017 - 2021: art tutor with Painting Holidays Australia in Asia and Kinrara Expeditions, Australia
- 2004 - 2012: Art teacher principally at Newington College and Cranbrook School, Sydney
- 2001 - present: Exhibiting Member, Ku-ring-gai Art Society
- 2020 - present: Bowral District Art Society