Biography

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Catherine Wynne-Paton is a British artist who lives and works in South Wales in the UK. She is creator of The Lost Library which has appeared at The National Eisteddfod of Wales, Fringe Arts Bath, Deptford X Fringe, The Wrexham Open and MainSpring Arts.    

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Wynne-Paton studied Fine Art at Hereford College of Arts, received the Meadow Arts graduate prize, was the first Print Shed artist in residence, where she had her first solo show in 2015 and in 2022 has received Arts Council of Wales funding.    

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She sat on the Jury for the Hidden Gems grant scheme, delivered by Herefordshire’s a Great Place that brings together the arts, heritage, rural communities and the creative use of digital technology.  

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More recently she has rediscovered the joy of Gelli printing and finding the softness of the plate particularly good at picking up the fine detail of plants. Working with a variety of grasses due to their delicacy and details and contemplating whether diversity could be an essential part of understanding how we can thrive. 

 

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CV

 

1977           Born Oxfordshire, UK 

2003-5       Art and Design Diploma, Salisbury College 

2011-4       Fine Art BA (Hons), Hereford College of Art 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL BODIES 

 

2014 Axisweb 
 
2014 Founding Director, Framework Herefordshire Artist support organisation 

 

RESIDENCES 

 

2022-3 Artist in residence, Growing Space, Abergavenny 
 
2022-3 Artist in residence, Made in Roath, Cardiff 
 
2019 The Artists Shop, 34 Eign Gate, Hereford 
 
2014 The Print Shed, Madley 

 

GRANTS AND AWARDS 

 

2022 Create funding from the Arts Council of Wales 
 
2017                a-n one-to-one guidance sessions 
 
2016                PEAK Creative Network Mini Fund   
 
2014                Meadow Arts Graduate Award 
 
2014                The Print Shed Artist in residence 

 
 

EXHIBITIONS 

 

2023 
 
Made in Roath Open, g39, Cardiff 
 

Framework Herefordshire members & guests, The Apple Store Gallery, Hereford 
 
2022 
 
Made in Roath Open, g39, Cardiff 
 
Hibernators, Group exhibition, The Art Shop, Abergavenny
 

West Midlands Open, New Art Gallery, Walsall 
 

Ukraine Fundraiser, Tŷ Tân Art, Hay-on-Wye 
 

2021  

 
Paintings 2015-2021, Hereford Open Exhibition, The Courtyard, Hereford
 
Various works, Track and Trace, Group exhibition, The Art Shop, Abergavenny
 

2020 

 
The Lost Library, 16 Videos, various locations, hosted on Vimeo 
 
Word collection paintings, Standing Together, The Bleddfa Centre, Knighton 
 
Wayside Wonders, 85 newspaper paintings displayed in pavement side window, Abergavenny 

 
2019  
 

Word collection paintings, Abergavenny Writing Festival, Abergavenny
 
Word collection paintings, Next Steps, Apple Store Gallery, Hereford
 

Word collection paintings, h.Art Open, The Courtyard, Hereford 

 
2018   

 
The Lost Library, Wrexham Open at Tŷ Pawb and UnDegUn, Wrexham  
 
Word collection paintings, Emergence, The Apple Store Gallery, Hereford  
 
Word collection paintings, The Clydach Gorge Collaboration Group Show, The Hen & Chickens, Abergavenny 
 

3 months of photos, drawings and videos, The Every Day Project, Desperate Artwives, Online  

 
2017   

 
Inscribe (installation), T R A N S P A R E N C Y, ASC Unit 3 Projects, London  
 
What Price (Performance), Madley Car Boot Sale, Herefordshire.   
 
The Lost Library, Deptford X Fringe, New Cross Learning, Goldsmiths Library and Lewisham Arthouse, London.   
 
The Lost Library, Fringe Arts Bath, Venue 1, Bath.    
 
2016   

 
New work (paintings), Should we have stayed at home?, Cafe Miro, Hereford   
 
The Lost Library, National Eisteddfod of Wales, Abergavenny  
 
#portrait:TACHBROOK collaboration, at Tachbrook market, London  
 
New work (paintings and installation), Solo show at The Print Shed, Madley  
 
Physical/Textual, Framework Herefordshire Magna Carta Banner Exhibition, Apple Store Gallery, Hereford  

 
2015   
 

Participant in Teresa Albor’s Little Museum of Ludlow at Ludlow Library & Museum in the Ludlow Fringe festival 
 
New work (paintings),  PaperFields, The Globe at Hay, Hay-on-Wye  

 
2014   

 
New work (paintings), PaperFields, RK Burt Gallery, London  
 
My cup runneth over (wall installation), Coffee Art Project, The Truman Brewery, London  
 
Stone writing, w0budong Group exhibition - an exhibition of writing without meaning, Piccadilly Place, Manchester 

 

COMMISSIONS 

 

2021 ArtQuest Art Worlds video commission 
 

2019 The Lost Library, SpringBoard, Mainspring Arts, London
 

2016 Arts Alive Wales (now PEAK) micro commission 

 

CATALOGUES AND ESSAYS 

 

2020 Catalogue essay What has Black history month got to do with me? for the Bleddfa Centre’s exhibition Standing Together 
 

2014 Dissertation What is found in reproduction? 
 

CONTACT

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email: wynnepaton@outlook.com

Instagram & Twitter: @wynnepaton
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CWynnePaton/