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Cathy de Monchaux
Shortlisted: 1998

Cathy de Monchaux's sculptures have a highly individual visual language and yet seem strangely familiar. They seem to retain the vestiges of some functional object, yet they have no identifiable practical application. She says 'They remind you of something you once saw somewhere else, as you passed it by in the street or in a dream'. Much of her work suggests anxiety, about the state of the world we live in, but also about all those 'irrational, emotional, repressed fears' which cloud our minds from time to time.

Cathy de Monchaux was born in London, England in 1960. Between 1980 and 1987 she trained at Camberwell School of Art and Goldsmiths College. De Monchaux was shortlisted in 1998 for the 'growing complexity and richness of her sculptures' seen in her solo exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery.

This information has been taken from The Turner Prize: Twenty Years, by Virginia Button, Tate Publishing, 2003.

View Cathy De Monchaux in the Tate Collection