Cathy.Mager
Cathy is a deaf curator, artist and director of Spectroscope - a Bristol based artist collective with an international practice in creating mesmerising otherworldly artworks.
Cathy is an artist, producer and curator known for her powerful and vibrant cultural programmes that explore equity, climate change and heritage. She is currently consultant curator for the Wellcome Trust. She led the heritage programme for Bristol Beacon 2020-2024. She is founder and director of Spectroscope, a company that has pioneered sign language projection mapping for the BBC, Science Gallery, Bristol Light Festival and Shanghai Museum of Modern Art.
Spectroscope is formed and led by an international collective of deaf and disabled artists. Our storytelling is emotive, taboo breaking and uplifting. Spectroscope also presents visions of what is to come, immersing audiences within dreamscapes that explore what our future world may look and feel like.
In her previous roles, Cathy has delivered exhibitions that highlight the stories of people worldwide including Inuit communities in Greenland, Columbian landfill dwellers, children of the Rio favelas and the Indian and African disapora of Southall. Previously she has overseen public realm artworks and exhibitions for Forestry England, Southbank Centre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Arts on the Underground and Historic Royal Palaces. Including the visitor record breaking sculpture trail Forest to Forest in 2021 in the Forest of Dean and a 21-mile arts programme The Ring for the Canal & River Trust 2016-2018.