Annie Cattrell RSA FRSS was born in Glasgow. A graduate of Glasgow School of Art with a Masters degrees from the University of Ulster and at the Royal College of Art. Her practice is often informed by working with specialists in neuroscience, meteorology, engineering, psychiatry and the history of science. This inter-disciplinary approach has enabled her to learn about cutting edge research and in depth information in these fields. She is drawn to the similarities and connective that can be found across the study of art, science and poetry
Cattrell has undertaken many large-scale public art commissions including Echo at the Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail; 0 to 10,000,000 for the award winning Bio-chemistry Department at Oxford University designed by architects Hawkins Brown; and Resounding for Oxford Brookes University. Transformation for the Science Centre at Anglia Ruskin University. Recently she was Lead Artist at New Museum Site at Cambridge University, where she completed a public commission Remains to be Seen situated at the Old Cavendish Laboratories and Student Services Building.
