Catherine Grubb Explained

Catherine Grubb
Birth Date:	^[1]
Birth Place:	Bellshill, Lanarkshire^[2]
Nationality:	British
Alma Mater:	Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh^[3] ^[4]

Catherine Grubb (born 1945) is a British artist.^[1]

Biography

Grubb was born in Bellshill in Lanarkshire; her parents were Scottish and Lithuanian.^[2] She lived in London as a child. Grubb studied at Edinburgh College of Art and the University of Edinburgh.^{[3] [4]} She researched mediaeval artists' sketchbooks.^[2]

She works in both printmaking (etching) and painting.^{[3] [4]}

She has also taught at schools and at Harrow School of Art.^{[4] [2]}

Grubb has had links to Cornwall since 1982, and now lives in Truro.^[4] She has designed costumes for The Questors Theatre.^{[2] [5] [6]}

Her work is held in the Government Art Collection and in the art collection of the University of Stirling.^[3]

Exhibitions

Exhibitions of her work have included:

• Ealing Professional Painters' Exhibition, 1972^[7]
• Exhibition at the Bull's Eye, Birmingham, 1974^[8]
• Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, 1976^{[9] [10]}
• New Etchings by Catherine Grubb, at Questors' Theatre, 1985^[11]
• Etchings, at Uxbridge Central Library, 1989^[12]
• New Richmond Gallery, 1990^[13]

External links

• Papers at the Newlyn Archive
• Catherine Grubb's work Eleanor Rigby discussed in exhibition From Walls to Windows, 2020
• Works in collection of University of Edinburgh

Notes and References

1. Web site: Catherine Grubb . Government Art Collection . 22 December 2020.
2. Web site: Etchings and Drawings by Catherine Grubb . The Questors Archives . The Questors Theatre . 22 December 2020 . 1993.
3. Web site: Catherine Grubb . Art Collection . University of Stirling . 22 December 2020.
4. Web site: Catherine GRUBB . Cornwall Artists . 22 December 2020.
5. Web site: FOUR COMEDIES . The Questors Archives . The Questors Theatre . 22 December 2020 . 1978.
6. Web site: Aladdin . The Questors Archives . The Questors Theatre . 22 December 2020 . 1981.
7. News: A 'professional' show . 22 December 2020 . Middlesex County Times . 12 May 1972 . Impressive is "Judgement", a nicely-executed etching of a group of figures, by Catherine Grubb..
8. News: Our Man at the Ikon . 22 December 2020 . Lichfield Times . 18 January 1974 . At the Bull's Eye at the moment are paintings, etchings, screenprints by ... Catherine Grubb.".
9. News: Exhibitions . 22 December 2020 . Liverpool Echo . 3 December 1976 . Christmas Exhibitions by Catherine Grubb [and others].
10. News: Riley . Joe . All-female Christmas display . 22 December 2020 . Liverpool Echo . 3 December 1976 . Catherine Grubb's prints deal with basic colour designs forged on a grand scale round surrealic, dream-like images..
11. News: Exhibitions . 22 December 2020 . Hammersmith & Shepherds Bush Gazette . 28 June 1985.
12. News: Display: Etchings by Catherine Grubb . 22 December 2020 . Pinner Observer . 6 April 1989.
13. News: Single Colour Theme . 22 December 2020 . Middlesex Chronicle . 31 May 1990 . Romantic Italian landscapes by Ealing-based Catherine Grubb form the basis of the New Richmond Gallery's first ever one-woman show. Her distinctive style of using only one colour per picture has brought her great success in recent years. There is an overwhelming medieval flavour to this exhibition, most noticeable in her landscapes..