Catherine Truman is an Adelaide-based artist working across the disciplines of art and science, and a co-founder of Gray St Workshop. Her practice incorporates the making of objects, digital imagery, film and installation works with a focus upon the parallels between artistic process and scientific method.

In 2016 Catherine was awarded an Arts South Australia Fellowship and her work was featured in a significant survey exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia. She was the subject of the 2016 South Australian Living Artist (SALA) monograph, Catherine Truman: touching distance, (available through Funaki). She was selected as the 2017 Jamfactory Icon and her art/science practice was highlighted with the solo exhibition No surface holds, that toured nationally from 2018 to 2020.

In 2019 Catherine was artist in residence at the State Herbarium and Botanic Gardens of South Australia and the Flinders Centre for Ophthalmology, Eye and Vision Research, School of Medicine, Flinders University undertaking The Visible Light Project: experiments in light and perception. Working alongside botanists, horticulturalists and an ophthalmologic photographer she researched the parallels between the ways in which the human eye and plants process light.

The result of these residencies was Shared Reckonings, a major solo exhibition presented in the Museum of Economic Botany and the Dead House in the Botanic Gardens of South Australia as part of the 2021 Adelaide Festival.

Truman has completed large-scale public and private commissions, and has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her word is represented major collections including the Pinakothek Moderne, Munich, Coda-museum, Netherlands, Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, Museum of Auckland, as well as Australian galleries NGV, NGA, AGSA, AGWA and the Powerhouse Museum.