Testing Ground: Kathryn Graham

Artist Kathryn Graham is taking over CCA's Project Space for the month of August as a Testing Ground for new work. Testing Ground is an initiative that is part of CCA x Jerwood = Supports programme; an artist participating in each Crit Group is invited to take their work-in-progress forward with a month in CCA's Project Space. Testing Ground aims to encourage experimentation and taking risks through realising work in its early stages with access to an audience.

Testing Ground is visible through the windows on Artillery Street as Kathryn uses the space as a studio and space to test new and existing bodies of work.

ABOUT Kathryn Graham

Kathryn Graham is a Belfast based visual artist and lecturer at Belfast School of Art. Kathryn graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Print in 2019 having graduated from the Belfast School of Art with a
Fine Art degree in 2017. She achieved a Printmaking Fellowship at City & Guilds of London Art School in 2021.

Kathryn’s work is playfully constructed through printmaking and sculpture, engaging with storytelling that questions identity, time, memory, place, and space. She is interested in expanded printmaking, exploring the boundaries of print and its relationship to sculpture, installation, and painting.

Kathryn has shown work internationally in India, China and the United States.
Recent shows include solo show at QSS Gallery, group shows at Impact 12 Bristol, Hang Tough Contemporary Dublin, RE Bankside Gallery London, Woolwich Contemporary Print fair London, Royal Ulster Academy Belfast, Southwark Park Galleries London, CCA Derry, Cream Athens and Cole Projects London. She was awarded a Space Artist Award in (2021) including a London based residency, Arts Council India residency award (2020), Gwen May printmaking award (shortlisted) and RUA Outstanding Students Award (2017. Graham was recipient of Arts council and A-N artists funding and has work held in collections of Victoria and Albert Museum, The Royal College of Art and The University of Ulster.

Kathryngraham.org | @kathryn_graham_

ABOUT CCA x Jerwood = Supports

CCA x Jerwood = Supports is a two-year development programme aimed at supporting emerging artistic practice. A combination of short training courses, mentoring, crits, surgeries, feedback and more will take place throughout 2023–24 made possible with funding from Jerwood Foundation

Supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Derry City & Strabane District Council.