B. Catling is a poet, sculptor, painter, and performance artist. He makes installations and paints portraits of imagined Cyclopes in egg tempera. Catling has had solo shows at the Serpentine Gallery, London; the Arnolfini in Bristol, England; the Ludwig Museum in Aachen, Germany; Hordaland Kunstnersentrum in Bergen, Norway; Project Gallery in Leipzig, Germany; the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, England; and several solo shows at Matt’s Gallery, London.
In 2015 he won the Cholmondeley Award from The Society of Authors for his poetic works. He was also elected to become a Royal Academician. He is Emeritus Professor of Fine Art at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford, and an Emeritus Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford.
He is the author of The Vorrh and The Erstwhile.