Over the past 20 years Cat’s professional work has spanned public, private and charity sectors including careers in bookselling, publishing and community arts. She has a background in arts and literature development, programming festivals, convening and chairing dozens of events, panels and talks, showcasing emerging and established artists
As a writer of short stories, she is influenced by Welsh legend and folklore having grown up in West Wales, learning Welsh as a second language. She travelled and lived abroad for several years on finishing a degree in Classical Studies, and before finding her spiritual home at Daunt Books in central London. She is published in a number of collections including the award winning Overheard: Stories to Read Aloud, edited by Jonathan Taylor for Salt Publishing and more recently in the international magazine, Folklore for Resistance, which explores the ways our shared inheritance of folklore and folk knowledge provide tools for resistance and liberation.
As a Director of Haarlem Artspace, Cat co-curated and produced several acclaimed exhibitions including Field Work, working with artists, FourthLand and Glennie Kindred, followed by Re:Rural with Annalee Davis and Feral Practice. She has produced various artist development programmes such as WebinArt for Creative Leicestershire with artists and writers including Helen Mort and Jo Fairfax and Collectivism which was part of the British Council’s Developing Inclusive Creative Economies programme in Brazil. Further British Council work has included developing programmes and seminars for creative entrepreneurs in Georgia, Kuwait and the Philippines.
Previous roles have included Chair of Trustees for the charity and participatory arts organisation, Junction Arts, Senior Fellow and Trustee for the national arts development charity, AD:uk and Artistic Quality Assessor for Arts Council England.