Catherine joined Barbican Art Gallery in 2010 and recently co-curated Bauhaus: Art as Life, the largest survey of the school to be staged in Britain in over 40 years. Bauhaus: Art as Life was accompanied by a major publication, edited jointly with her co-curator Lydia Yee. Her first project for the Gallery was Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion, a retrospective of avant-garde fashion from Japan drawn from the Kyoto Costume Institute collection; she also organised the 2011 Curve Gallery installation Architecture as Air by Junya Ishigami.

Prior to joining Barbican Art Gallery Catherine was Acting Director of the British Council’s Architecture, Design and Fashion department where she organised touring exhibitions, commissions and special projects about contemporary British design and architecture. As Assistant and Co-Commissioner, Catherine was responsible for the British Pavilion exhibitions at the 2006 and 2008 Venice Biennale of Architecture. Previously, she was curator of Contemporary Programmes at the Victoria & Albert Museum.

Catherine studied art and design history before completing an MA in Curating Contemporary Design at Kingston University.