Cathie Pilkington's work 'engages passionately and critically with the canonical history of figurative sculpture. Crossing the borders of traditional, modern and contemporary idioms, her work combines intensively modelled and painted sculptures within immersive installations comprising a diverse array of props, materials and studio furniture. As a sculptor and assembler her practice is porous, often absorbing and integrating content from archives, collections and historic settings. Her site-responsive installations are balanced ambivalently between chaos and precision and have been described as a kind of art historical fly-tipping.
Recent situated projects include: Housekeeper, Freud Museum, London, 2025; Anatomy of a Doll, Royal Academy Life Room, 2016; and Life Room: Working from Home, 2019, which made interventions in the display of the permanent collections of Dorich House Museum and Pallant House Gallery. Recent solo exhibitions include Rag & Bone, Kunstmuseum Brandts, Denmark, 2025-26 and Weird Horses, Karsten Schubert, London, 2023.'
Pilkington was the cover artist for Garageland 22: Difficult Women
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