Studio Residency – Katrina Cobain – Dec 2025

We are excited to announce the artist taking part on the Studio Residency across the month of December 2025.

Katrina Cobain is an artist working in the mediums of performance, sculpture, writing and film. Her work explores the personas and fronts created in the late capitalist landscape, and the cognitive dissonance they often produce. Currently in her practice she is interested in the duplexity of materials in our society, with a focus on plastic and lithium, contrasted with more personal narratives of nostalgia, optimism, failure and the performativity of self. Drawn to absurdity, and its usefulness to puncture darkness or hopelessness, her work has a subtle humour at times, which she considers a form of resistance.

For this residency Katrina will be spending time researching lithium, as both a commodity and pharmaceutical, through a personal lens. There will be a focus on exploring the element’s relationship with the Irish and Scottish landscape, both physically and historically. This body of research began with the writing of a simple statement, misremembered from her GCSE chemistry exam: Lithium burns brick red.