Ms Catherine Paxman

Kate is an artist, lecturer and Ph.D. candidate in Media Arts at the University of Plymouth. 

Her work includes film and sound, animation and drawing and her research project employs feminist methodologies to explore environmental violence along local climate-vulnerable coastlines. Kate is co-director of More Just, More Sustainable Futures: Artistic Research PhD Symposium, and her essay ‘Sirens’ is published in the symposium’s publication, Multiple Ecologies/Diverse Ontologies (2022). She has received a number of commissions and awards, most recently from Aeolus Online, BEAST FEaST (2021) and Arts Council England. 

Kate is also co-director of Cine Sisters SW CIC, a collective whose vision is to develop a diverse and inclusive network which supports and inspires women and gender-minority moving image artists and filmmakers in the south west region.