Cassie Vaughan

A landscape image using a red, brown and pink palette. Tree forms bend in a desert like space that is alive with movement.

Cassie Vaughan lives and works in London. With a longstanding fascination for literature and how words intersect with images, she first graduated from University College London with a BA in English Literature before moving to Amsterdam, where she built up her fine art portfolio. She completed her BA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, London, specialising in painting.

Cassie was Director of Operations at Timothy Taylor for over ten years, supporting some of the gallery’s most established artists. Since leaving the gallery in 2017, she has focused on developing her fine art practice, which uses drawing, print, paint and moving-image to explore elements of environmental and emotional collapse and imagined future landscapes.

Selected exhibitions include:

Small and Mighty Club, Ladies Drawing Club online exhibition, 10th June - 10th July, 2023
We Are All In this Together, The Easter Gallery, 205 Kingsland Road, London, 21st - 25th April, 2023
From the Big Splash to the Last Splash, Terrace Gallery, 258 Church Road, London, 15 March - 9th April, 2023
The Waiting Place, The Art Station, First Floor, 48 High Street, Saxmundham, Suffolk, 8 May - 12 June, 2021
We Can Only Have Fun on Certain Days, Warbling Collective, Stour Space, 7 Roach Rd, Fish Island, London, 22 - 30 April, 2019

A portrait of the artist seated against the studio wall. She has a mid-brown bob and is wearing black jeans and a patterned top.

I am fascinated by unintentional, found marks and gestures, using these to seed new work and create nature based spaces that question the control of the maker and the dominance of human presence in ecosystems.

Layering printing methods with drawing and painting, the work explores environmental collapse, specifically the overlapping narratives held in land, the haunting presence of extinctions and the concept of solastalgia - which articulates the emotional trauma of environmental damage as experienced by all life forms.

By creating spaces that hover between decay and growth, the work attempts to convey our current political and social predicament: caught between the power of archaic, damaging systems and the potential for radical, healing change.