Artist CV
Mixed media artist, painter, teacher and self-confessed gypsy wanderer Cathy Shugg is endlessly inspired by the world around her:
“My art is a response to life experiences, wherever they happen.”

​Cathy is an award-winning Australian artist with many years of experience as an art maker and teacher. Based in her studio-gallery in Sydney and travelling widely, she creates original paintings, mixed media and collage art for purchase and by commission. Her artworks are held in private and corporate collections in Australia and abroad. Cathy has been awarded artist residencies in Champagne and Provence France in 2017/2018 and is feature artist and tutor on art trips to Asia with Painting Holidays.

Art Awards
  • 2018: Third Prize Pastels, Ku-ring-gai Art Awards
  • 2018: Artist in Residence at NG Art Creative Residency, Provence France
  • 2018: Artist in Residence at The Pickers' Hut, Tasmania Australia 
  • 2017: Artist in Residence at Chateau d’Orquevaux, Champagne-Ardenne France
  • 2017: 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, Singleton Art Prize
  • 2004: First Prize Acrylic Painting, Ku-ring-gai Art Awards
  • 2004: Second Prize Mixed Media, Ku-ring-gai Art Awards
  • 2001: Highly Commended Still Life, Northholm Art Show
  • 1998: Highly Commended Landscape, Northholm Art Show
  • 1997: Highly Commended Watercolour, Hornsby Art Prize
  • 1993-2018: Sydney and regional art show finalist, including Hunters Hill Art Prize, Sydney Royal Easter Show, Waverley Woollahra, Taree, Blacktown and Hornsby

Exhibitions
  • 2018: Fire and Ice 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 
  • 2017: Far & Away solo exhibition, Art Gallery on Darling Sydney
  • 2016: Trio Group exhibition, Studio W Gallery Sydney
  • 2015: Solo exhibition, Redleaf Gallery Sydney
  • 2015: Judge at St Ives Art Show Sydney
  • 2016, 2012: Alumnow Pymble Group exhibition, PLC and Royal Art Society Gallery 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
  • 2017-2018: art tutor with Painting Holidays
  • 2004-2012: Art teacher principally at Newington College and Cranbrook School, Sydney
  • BA Macquarie University, Dip Teach (Art major) Ku-ring-gai CAE, Grad Cert Vis Arts UTS