bio + cv
Cat Sivertsen is a multi-disciplinary artist. She is a visual storyteller, an arts-based educator and advocate of arts as wellness. Cat’s career spans 30 years with exhibition, commission and installation projects in public and private spaces.
Cat studied visual arts formally in Victoria and informally in England. Whilst living in the UK Cat took advantage of proximity in terms of material exploration working with skilled artisans in hot glass, ceramic and forging studios. These contributing factors helped expand Cat’s visual vocabulary and expressions in her work looking at domesticity, food sustainability, history and the patriarchy. This work is represented as site specific installations in galleries, land spaces and academia throughout southwest England, Europe and western Australia.
Since Cat’s return to Canada in 2006 her work is concentrated in ‘sense of place’. This concept includes notions and realities of aging parents, empty nesting, aging and death – her own own as well as the environment’s. Cat’s studio process is grounded in writing and drawing. She is obsessed with eco printing with weeds and rust. Cat engages with this medium through residencies in Northern BC and Alberta. Cat is driven by the alchemic curiosity of materials.
exhibit: site specific
2021 The Covidian Garden Party: a coming of age, Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George, BC
2019 playing with fire, Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George, BC
2019 Performance, Tony Onley Artists Residency, Wells, BC
exhibit: solo
2023 sensibilities of place, The Robert Frederick Gallery, University of British Columbia, Prince George, BC
sensibilities of place, Island Mountain Arts Gallery, Wells, BC
2022 sensibilities of place, Keyano College Gallery, Fort McMurray, AB
2021 The Covidian Garden Party: a coming of age, regional exhibition: Mackenzie, Valemount and McBride, BC
2020 Choreography of Trust – a collaboration with Sarah Grace Dye, Omineca Arts Centre, Prince George, BC
2013 exhibit 365, Storefront Studio, Prince George, BC
exhibit: group
2023 Choreography of Trust, Chilliwack Cultural Centre, Chilliwack, BC
2019 Record / Revise, Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George, BC
2016 Voice, Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George, BC
2014 home is where the ART is, SIX Projects, England
artist in residence:
2023 Forest Echoes Cabins, Cultus Lake, Chilliwack, BC
Island Mountain Arts, Wells, BC
North Pacific Cannery, Port Edward, BC
2022 Wood Buffalo Arts Council, Fort McMurray, AB
2020 Omineca Arts Centre in collaboration with Sarah Grace Dye, Prince George, BC
2019 Toni Onley Artists Project, Island Mountain Arts, Wells, BC
BMO Kids Arts Dayz, Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George, BC
publications:
2023 Time Out of Time in Artwork with Cat Sivertsen. C.Hardeman. Thimbleberry Magazine. Prince George, BC
2021 The Covidian Garden Party: a coming of age. Exhibition Catalogue. G. Harris, Curator. Two Rivers Gallery.
Prince George, BC
Covid Collections. S. Florence. A. Sjolie (ed). Edmonton, Alberta
2019 Thimbleberry: Art Review, A Conversation with Cat Sivertsen. M. Hunter-Gautier, Prince George, BC
References on request as is a longform CV.