Cat Madden (b. 1992, Dunfermline, Scotland) is awarded the Ivan Juritz Prize for the Visual Arts for her experimental drawing practice. She writes: “I intuitively explore the in-betweenness of things, problems, play, and transformation through installation, object-making, and drawing. ‘Not knowing’ is a space for creative experimentation, problem solving, and discovery. Drawing is my touch, the traces of accidents, my writing, the experience of searching, of figuring things out, of getting confused. My process is play – the seriousness of play, the joy of play, the learning from play. In everyday materials I seek wonder. I fuse things that don’t ‘belong’, I use things that may not last, and I place things you might (nearly) step on.”

Cat Madden  graduated with an MFA in Painting from Slade School of Fine Art in 2024, and previously attended Turps Art School’s Correspondence Course (2018-19). She studied for her undergraduate in Painting at Wimbledon College of Art (2016) and did a Foundation at Leith School of Art (2013) in Scotland. She teaches at the Royal Drawing School in London where she supports the running of The Drawing Year Programme.

Artist website: cat-madden.com

Photo: Installation view of Slade MA/MFA Degree Show 2024. (Chris Lane/Studio Waltzer 2024).