Courtenay McCue is a multidisciplinary artist who creates work that blends social commentary, nostalgic memory, and layered symbolism, in a playful yet thoughtful way. Whether painting, working with ceramics, or creating with textiles, her work feels like a dreamscape scrapbook; vibrant, a little chaotic, and sprinkled with hidden messages.

Her process is intuitive and iterative, evolving through cycles of adding, removing, and reimagining, ultimately serving as a self-portrait that captures her personal journey and inner world. Layers of symbols carry personal significance, while others remain intentionally ambiguous. When starting an artwork, the final piece is always unknown, and the process itself becomes the art form.

During this residency, McCue has been exploring Berlin, a journey reflected throughout her large-scale paintings. Immersed in the city’s nightlife and urban energy, the works absorb its rhythm, freedom, and seductiveness. Many of the paintings were imagined while lying in bed in the studio, in that liminal space between night and morning where thoughts drift and images rearrange themselves. As a result, the compositions are designed to be viewed in both portrait and horizontal orientations, mirroring this shifting, dreamlike perception.