Cathy Blanchflower was born in Brighton, UK, and grew up in Perth, Western Australia where she attained her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Curtin University in 1994. She lived & worked in New York 2000-2003, Melbourne 2004-2009, Blue Mountains, NSW 2009-2017 before returning to Perth.

Cathy’s processes of painting explore layering, colour relationships, movement, light and space within the field of organic abstraction. The works seek a balance between order and disorder, stillness and movement, and presence and absence. 

She has exhibited regularly in Australia and shown her work internationally, including New York, USA, Phillipines, Netherlands, Spain and Thailand. She has been included in major curated exhibitions of abstract art at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Victoria; Art Gallery of New South Wales and Art Gallery of Western Australia. A mid-career survey of her work was held at John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University, Perth, in 2009.

Cathy's work can be found in many public collections including Art Gallery of Western Australia, National Gallery of Australia, University of Sydney, Artbank, Wesfarmers, Curtin University of Technology, Edith Cowan University, University of Western Australia as well as private national and international collections.