My work is about being brave. We need to be brave in this age… we need to be brave in revealing our own frailties. To illustrate…understanding and empathy, even at the moment we're being attacked for it.

First emerging as a rising star of the YBA's in the 90's, alongside infamous art luminaries like Tracy Emin and Damien Hirst; over several decades Catherine Shaw's distinctive and dynamic practice has explored power, truth, gender and resistance through performative and conceptual artworks that utilise autobiography, manipulation of image, the mixing of mediums and the resilience of the body.

Celebrating her bold and provocative command of imagery and materials, Indestructible is Shaw's first major exhibition in over a decade, featuring - a retrospective of many of her most well known pieces, never before seen pieces, and new work especially commissioned for the exhibition by MOCA North, alongside a selection of works by emerging and established female artists curated by Catherine that inspire and exciter her - with new commissions by Beatrice Gaskin and Julia Rodriguez.