Cath Keay is a sculptor who graduated from Glasgow School of Art and Edinburgh College of Art and has had solo shows in Britain and Germany. She is currently completing a PhD at Newcastle University. Her works are often the result of collaborative processes with external forces – animals, gravity or crystal growth - through which she supersedes the hand of the artist in the final form of the artwork. She was Arts Council England Helen Chadwick Fellow 2008-9. During her fellowship at the British school at Rome and at the Ruskin School in Oxford she researched colonie estive and case del Balilla buildings from the 1930’s.