Artist Bio
Sue Cathcart has been working in mixed media for 30 years; it began as a way of paying the rent and has now taken over her life. She works primarily with paper, particularly papier mache, and makes collages and 3D pieces. Cathcart is a self taught practitioner, and would call herself a Folk or Outsider Artist. Her work is very colourful and ebullient with diverse and found materials combining with the written word to create pieces that tell or are the story.
Sue has also created the character Mr Papers who features in cards and installations, he has his own dedicated Instagram profile and features in long ridiculous story lines which people from all over the world participate in. As time has gone on Sue has realised that the conversations that come from the work are as important as the work itself and regular contributors have formed into a group that are very funny and also very supportive of each other. She has taught creative studies for many years before training as a literacy teacher and working as a community tutor, she now works part time for a museum and combines this with her own creative practice which includes workshops and creation of paper art and stories. Sue is a founder member of the Belfast Artists Paper Society which promotes art that is created fundamentally with paper with paper as the focal point of a piece. Sue believes that everyone is an artist and that art is incredibly important for our well being.
