Born:  Late 1960s  Melbourne,  Australia
Lived various states of Australia, USA and Malaysia
Studied Australia and USA
 

Catherine Pilgrim has exhibited widely since returning to Australia after studying lithography and drawing in Washington DC in 1994. In 2011 she completed a Master of Fine Art (Research) at Monash University, Melbourne with research around the subjective process of 'capture' which occurs in making a representational image.  
 
Catherine has won a number of accolades for her intricate works on paper including the Australian Print Workshop Collie Print Trust Scholarship for Emerging Printmakers. Her works are held in public and private collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Geelong Regional Art Gallery, National Australia Bank and Australian War Memorial. She gratefully lives and works on Dja Dja Wurrung Country, Central Victoria, Australia. 
 
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Education: 

2014 Certificate IV Assessment and Training
2011 Master of Fine Arts (Research) Monash University
1999 Bachelor of Arts (Hons) (Fine Art) RMIT University
1995 Bachelor of Arts (Humanities) Deakin University 
1994 Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) Deakin University (including GWU Washington DC Fall 1994)

Solo Exhibitions:
 
1996 DesireDress, Fitzroy Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
1998 Exhibition in conjunction with Woolmark 1998 Melbourne Fashion Festival, Lobby, Hotel Sofitel, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
1999 Tempt, Cafe La, Hotel Sofitel, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2000 Fabrications, Span Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2001 Fabricate, Patrizia Autore Gallery, St Kilda, Victoria, Australia
2003 Feast, Red Gallery, North Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
2010 Options in Servitude, Red Gallery, North Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
2010 Options in Servitude Examination Exhibition, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2011 Widow Series – Recent Lithographs and Drawings, Red Gallery, North Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
2012 Widow, La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
2013 Catherine Pilgrim - Christmas Gifts, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2015 Making History – The Hidden World of the Leviny Women, Castlemaine Art Gallery, Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
2016 Looking for the Leviny Women of Buda, fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2018 Mrs Larritt in Upside Down Country, Dudley House, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
2019 Mrs Larritt, fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2021 Sorry My House Is Such A Mess (Care Project) Phyllis Palmer Gallery, La Trobe University Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

Two and Three Person Collaborative Exhibitions:
 
2002 Common Thread, Mass Gallery, North Fitzroy, Victoria; Castlemaine Regional Gallery, Castlemaine, Victoria; Swan Hill Regional Gallery, Swan Hill, Victoria and Gippsland Gallery, Sale, Victoria, Australia (with Deborah Klein and Shane Jones)
2003 Common Thread, Maroondah Art Gallery, Ringwood, Victoria; Post Office Gallery, Bendigo, Victoria; Arts Academy, University of Ballarat, Ballarat, Victoria; and Phyllis Palmer Gallery, La Trobe University, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia (with Deborah Klein and Shane Jones)
2015 Architecture of Intricacy Catherine Pilgrim and Cas Davey, Central Goldfields Gallery, Maryborough, Victoria, Australia
 

Selected Group and Juried Exhibitions:
 
1993 Prints and Drawings - Pilgrim, Hampson, Wallace and Crawford, Sherwood Gallery, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia
1994 Centre for Contemporary Photography Annual Summer Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
1994 Annual Student Show, Dimock Gallery, George Washington University, Washington DC  USA
1994 House of Lies - Deakin University Graduate Exhibition, Deakin University, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia
1996 University of Western Sydney Macarthur National Printmedia Acquisitive, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Casula, New South Wales, Australia (Finalist)
1996 21st Annual Shell Fremantle Print Award Exhibition, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia (Finalist)
1996 12th Biennial Prints Acquisitive Exhibition, Mornington Peninsula Regional  Gallery, Mornington, Victoria, Australia (Finalist)
1997 Shell Art Prize, Williamstown Town Hall, Williamstown, Victoria, Australia (Finalist)
1997 Australian Printmedia Awards 1997, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Casula, New South Wales, Australia (Finalist)
1997 22nd Annual Shell Fremantle Print Award Exhibition, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia (Finalist)
1998 Collie Trust Emerging Printmakers Exhibition, Australian Print Workshop Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
1998 23rd Annual Shell Freemantle Print Award Exhibition, Freemantle Arts Centre, Freemantle, Western Australia, Australia (Finalist)
1998 Illawarra Acquisitive Print Award, Illawarra Grammar Centre, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia (Finalist)
1999 ‘Swap’ exchange and exhibition of prints, Australian Print Workshop Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
1999 The Fabric of Labour, Bulle Art Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
1999 Geelong Print Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, Victoria, Australia (Finalist)
1999 Stop the Press, RMIT Honours Printmaking Exhibition, Span Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
1999 Rena Ellen Jones Memorial Print Award, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia (Finalist)
1999 The New Collectables, First Site Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2000 The Fleming Muntz Albury Art Prize, Albury Regional Art Gallery, Albury New South Wales, Australia (Finalist)
2001 Minutia, Australian Print Workshop Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
2001 26th Annual Shell Freemantle Print Award, Freemantle Arts Centre, Freemantle, Western Australia, Australia (Finalist)
2001 Collection, Platform 2, Flinders Street Station Subway, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2002 St Kilda Salon, Metropolis Gallery, St Kilda, Victoria, Australia
2002 Entity, Dante's Upstairs Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
2002 Australian Print Workshop 21, Australian Print Workshop, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
2003 Outfit, Dante's Upstairs Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
2003 Accessible, Australian Print Workshop Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
2004 Swan Hill Print and Drawing Acquisitive Award Exhibition, Swan Hill Regional Gallery, Swan Hill, Victoria, Australia (Finalist)
2004 29th Annual Shell Freemantle Print Award, Freemantle Arts Centre, Freemantle, Western Australia, Australia (Finalist)
2004 Impressions, Australian Print Workshop Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
2005 Red Stocking Show, Red Gallery, North Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
2006 2006 Swan Hill Print and Drawing Acquisitive Awards, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Swan Hill, Victoria, Australia
2007 ‘50’ a folio of prints by Victorian artists, Geelong Regional Art Gallery, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
2010 The Exquisite Palette 2010, St Luke Artist Colourmen, Collingwood, Victoria, Australia
2010 Impressions 2010, Australian Print Workshop Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
2011 The Summer Salon, Lot 19, Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
2011 Pressing Issues’ Castlemaine State Festival Visual Arts Biennial, Post Office, Castlemaine Victoria, Australia
2011 Rick Amor Print Prize, Monsalvat, Eltham, Victoria, Australia (Finalist)
2011 Footprints, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, Victoria, Australia
2011 Where Are They Now?  Australian Print Workshop Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
2012 Impressions 2012, Australian Print Workshop Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
2013 The Tree Show, Cascade Print Workshop Gallery, Maldon, Victoria, Australia
2013 The Exquisite Palette 2013, St Luke Artist Colourmen, Collingwood, Victoria, Australia
2013 A Collective Vision: Prints from the Castlemaine Art Gallery Collection, 1970-2013, Castlemaine Art Gallery, Castlemaine, Victoria.
2014 Partnership, Lot 19 Arts, Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia. (with Rona Green)
2015 Co. Lab 2015 – Write on the Fringe, Bendigo Library, Victoria, Australia
2015 Not Born Digital, Impact 9 Open Folio (Goldfields Printmakers), China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
2015 Not Born Digital, Ararat Regional Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
2015 Mildura BMW Australian Print Triennial Prize, Art Vault, Mildura, Australia (Finalist)
2016 Lettered Print Exchange, Queenscliff Gallery and Workshop, Queenscliff, Victoria, Australia
2016 Swan Hill Acquisitive Print and Drawing Award, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Swan Hill, Victoria, Australia (Finalist)
2016 Drawing Dialogue, collaborative drawing, DalgaArt, Dalga Gallery, Craiova, Romania
2016 Home Nostalgia, Queenscliff Gallery and Workshop, Queenscliff, Victoria, Australia
2016 Creative Collective Exhibition Melbourne Spring Fashion Week, Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2016 Panoply Print Exchange Folio, Metropolis Gallery, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
2016 Chroma Print Exchange, Queenscliff Gallery and Workshop, Queenscliff, Victoria, Australia
2016 Impressions 2016, Australian Print Workshop Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
2017 Editions 2107, Tacit Contemporary Art, Abbotsford, Victoria, Australia
2017 Great Authors, Queenscliff Gallery and Workshop, Queenscliff, Victoria, Australia
2017 Co-Lab 2017 - Write on the Fringe, (with writer Ida Menzel) Bendigo Library, Victoria, Australia
2017 45 at 45, fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, Victoria
2017 Lot 19 Spring Sculpture Show, Lot 19, Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
​2017 Litho, Mono, Screen and Unique State Prints, Queenscliff Gallery and Workshop, Queenscliff, Victoria, Australia
2018 The Exquisite Palette 2018  Tacit Galleries, Collingwood, Victoria, Australia.
2018 Rivers of Gold, A Printmaking Exchange and touring exhibition. Gympie Regional Gallery, Queensland, Art at Wharepuke, Kerikeri, New Zealand, Queensland College of Art, Project Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, Impact10 Santander Spain
2018 Unfolding Projects – The Handkerchief Project Impact X Santander, Spain
2018 Goldfields Printmakers Portfolio 'Community in Place', International Multidisciplinary Printmaking Conference, IMPACT 10 Santander, Spain.
2018 Lot 19 Spring Sculpture Prize, Lot 19, Castlemaine, Victoria (Judges Special Mention) 
2018 Impressions 2018. Australian Print Workshop Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria
2018 Drawing Strength, Montsalvat, Victoria, Australia (Curated by Jo Lane)
2019 Drawing from the Line Cascade, Art, Maldon, Victoria, Australia.
2019 Layers of Settlement, The Art Vault, Mildura Victoria, Australia.
2019 Beyond the Veil, featuring 'The Handkerchief Project' in honour of the 58th Venice Biennale, Artists' Museum 'Markers' Project, Venice, Italy.
2019 Out of the Cupboard Satellite Projects - Reyne, North Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
2019 Lot 19 Spring Sculpture Prize, Lot 19, Castlemaine, Victoria
2019 Beyond the Veil, featuring 'The Handkerchief Project' Memory of the Future, Multidisciplinary cultural space, Paris, France.
2019 Small fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, Victoria 
2019 Experimental Print Prize (finalist) Castlemaine Art Museum, Castlemaine, Victoria
​2020 (Let's just move on shall we)
2021 Making Marks: Australia to Afghanistan, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, Victoria
2022 The Printmakers Garden of Imagination, Newstead Arts Hub, Victoria.
2022 The Printmakers Garden of Imagination, Impact 12, International Printmakers Conference, Bristol UK.
2023 Istoria (Goldfields Printmakers Survey Exhibition), Burra Regional Gallery SA.
2023 Experimental Print Prize (finalist and special mention) Castlemaine Art Museum, Victoria. 
2023 11th International Printmaking Biennial of Douro, Portugal 
2024  Granite Girls Open Studio, Arts Open, Castlemaine Victoria
2024  Puff Paper, Art Puff, Castlemaine, Victoria
2024  Gathering, Old Butchers Shop Gallery, Ballarat, Victoria
2024  21 on 19,   21st Birthday Exhibition Lot 19, Castlemaine, Victoria
2025  Frida, Castlemaine Fringe Festival, Market Building Castlemaine, Victoria
2025  Gather, Market Building, Castlemaine, Victoria


​Collections
 
Art Gallery of Ballarat
Australian Print Workshop, Fitzroy, Victoria
Australian Neuroscience Society
Australian War Memorial
Castlemaine Art Museum, Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
Charles Sturt University, New South Wales, Australia
Geelong Regional Art Gallery, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Gold Coast City Gallery, Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia
Hotel Sofitel, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia 
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Melbourne
National Australia Bank
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Perri Cutten Australia
Rockhampton Museum of Art, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
The Art Vault, Mildura, Australia
Private collections
 
 
Commissions
 
2001 National Australia Bank
2002 Australian Neuroscience Society
Private Commissions
 
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Bibliography

1. Anna Clabburn, ‘Getting it together for a little showing off’, The Age, Melbourne, 11 February 1998
2. Sarah Hudson, ‘Food for Thought’, The Herald Sun, Melbourne, 16 March 1999
3. Robert Nelson, ‘When fashion dresses up as art’, Sunday Age, Melbourne, 20 February 2000
4. Common Thread Exhibition Catalogue, essay by Jasmina Cininas, 2002.
5. Jasmina Cininas, 'Common Thread: Shane Jones, Deborah Klein, Catherine Pilgrim', IMPRINT, Vol 37, No. 3, Spring 2002
6. Rebecca Lancashire 'Culinary Arts', The Age, Melbourne, 8 July 2003
7. Susan Johnston, Seasonal Fare, Wakefield Press, 2006 
8. Helen Long, ‘Footprints, an exhibition by sixteen Central Victorian Printmakers’, IMPRINT, Vol 46, No.3, Spring 2011
9. Jackie Hocking, ‘Scholarships Exposed: Where are they now?’, IMPRINT, Vol 46, No.3,  Spring 2011
10. ‘Peter McNeil, A Room of one’s own’; or ‘Undying souls’ Catalogue essay from ‘Making History – Hidden World of the Leviny Women’ February 2015

     11.  'Artists talents set in stone', Bendigo Advertiser, 18th March 2016 
     12.  Jacqueline Milner 'Mrs Larritt in Upside-down Country' (Catalogue essay) 2018 
     13.  'Making Marks - Australia and Afghanistan' Publication to accompany the Handkerchief project edited by Gali Weiss and                         Barbara Kameniar 2020

Awards and Grants
 
1997 Australian Print Workshop Collie Print Trust Scholarship for Emerging Printmakers
2000 Arts Victoria Touring Victoria Grant for Group Exhibition ‘Common Thread’.
2002 Works on Paper, Warwick Non-Acquisitive Art Prize (highly commended)
2007 Best Cookbook Illustrations – Australia, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards for Seasonal Fare
2016 Lot 19 Spring Sculpture Prize – Best Soft Sculpture
2017 Creative Victoria, Regional Centre for Culture Local Makers Grant for ‘Mrs Larritt in Upside-down Country’ at Dudley House, Bendigo
2018 Lot 19 Spring Sculpture Prize - Judges Special Mention
2021 Sustaining Creatives Workers Quick Response Grant, Creative Victoria 

Exchange and Residency Opportunities
 
1994 Scholarship to participate in Deakin University Exchange programme and attend George Washington University Fine Art Department Washington DC, USA
2014 Artist in Residence Project, Buda Historic Home and Garden, Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
2016 Artist in Residence, The Art Vault, Mildura, Victoria, Australia (June)
 
Professional Achievements and Tutoring
 
1994 Empty Shop Project, organised through Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
1999 Co-curator, 'Swap' exchange and exhibition of prints, Australian Print Workshop Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
1999 'Notions of Feast' Art, Food and Wine Degustation Dinner, In association with Melbourne Food and Wine Festival and ‘Le Restaurant’, Hotel Sofitel, Melbourne
2001 Co-curator with Rona Green, Minutia, Australian Print Workshop Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
2001 Teacher, Lithography and general printmaking workshop, Printmaking Department, Box Hill Institute of TAFE, Box Hill, Victoria, Australia
2002 Co-curator with Deborah Klein and Shane Jones, Common Thread, Mass Gallery, North Fitzroy, Victoria; Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum, Castlemaine, Victoria; Swan Hill Regional Gallery, Swan Hill, Victoria and Gippsland Gallery, Sale, Victoria
2003 Teacher, Lithography Workshop with Catherine Pilgrim, Arts Academy, University of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
2011 Open Studio, Castlemaine State Festival Visual Arts Biennial, Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
2013 Open Studio, Castlemaine State Festival Visual Arts Biennial, Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
2013 Member of Committee of Management, Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum, Victoria, Australia (2013-2015)
2014 Arts Open, Open Studios, Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
2014 Teacher Tutored Drawing Groups, Buda Historic Home and Garden, Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
2014 Buda Autumn Lecture Series, Buda Historic Home and Garden, Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
2014 Session leader, (with) drawing room –Drawing workshop, Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum, Castlemaine, Victoria.
2015 Open Studio, Castlemaine State Festival Visual Arts Biennial, Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia.
2016 Arts Open, Open Studios Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
2017 Open Studio, Castlemaine State Festival, Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia.
2018 Arts Open, Open Studios Castlemaine, Victoria.
2019 Open Studio, Castlemaine State Festival, Castlemaine, Victoria.
2019 Artist Talk for 'Mrs Larritt' fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, Victoria 
2020 Arts Open, Open Studios Castlemaine, Victoria. 
2021 Open Studio, Castlemaine State Festival, Castlemaine, Victoria
2021 Artist Talk, ‘Sorry My House is Such a Mess’ Phyllis Palmer Gallery, La Trobe University, Bendigo, Victoria.
​2021 Judge (wtih Trent Walter), Castlemaine Experimental Print Prize, Castlemaine Art Museum
2022 Sessional teaching at RMIT University (School of Art - Printmaking)
2023 Open Studio, Castlemaine State Festival, Castlemaine, Victoria
2023 'Drawing on History' Friends of Castlemaine Art Museum Artist Talk (Fundraiser Series)
2024 Arts Open, Open Studios Castlemaine, Victoria.
2024 Teacher, Private Tutored Drawing Groups and Workshops, Castlemaine, Victoria (2014 - present)
2025 Castlemaine Fringe Festival Arts Trail Open Studios, Victoria