Earning her BA in Studio Art and Architecture from Middlebury College 2015, she went on to complete her MFA in Fine Arts at Goldsmiths University (2023). McCabe currently lives and works in London, UK.

McCabe is a conceptual artist making photo objects, sculpture, and video projections, concerning the compulsion to record in relation to mortality. Her material investigations constitute abstracted indexes of experiential time. In her ongoing series, cyanotype photograms on silk of her father’s ashes are sensitised at night and printed in daylight. This active light-tracing demands a methodology which is both intuitive and practical. The act of scattering is one of collaboration of the hand wind and silk, where the climatic conditions determine both the formation of ash, and the deep blue time of the exposure.  Across this series, repetition becomes habit becomes ritual.