Catherine Long born in Birmingham, United Kingdom in 1982, is an abstract painter with a background in contemporary dance. Her work is engaged with the expression of physicality, gesture and hapticity through the materiality of paint. Her paintings are deeply invested in exploring the visceral and psychological impact of colour and working to build layers of history, patina and resonance. Long draws upon her dance background to explore movement and gesture and how the lived experience of inhabiting the body and perceiving sensations from within the body can be used to develop the work to create rhythm, dynamics and sensuality.

Long graduated from MA Painting at the Royal College of Art in 2024 and previously undertook the two year Turps Studio Painting Programme in 2021–2023. Her works have been featured in group shows at Huxley-Parlour, LBF Contemporary, Gillian Jason Gallery, Verdyun Gallery (Belgium) (all 2025) and Matt Carey-Williams (2024).