Description
About Catherine
I work full time as an artist, which includes teaching design principals and feltmaking practices at textile workshops. I enjoy exhibiting my work and have been profiled in various magazines and books.
As an artist, I work primarily with wool fibre and silk fabrics. My artwork is 2 dimensional or sculptural in nature. The fall of light and the shadows it creates plays an important role in the positive and negative spaces within my artwork. I am fascinated with the shadowed areas found in the internal spaces within my work.
The elements of design and the principles of art and composition are important considerations in what I do. I have developed a style of feltmaking which is very fine; with the surface of the felt being evenly textured and fibrous. The sculptural shapes are hollow and skillfully manipulated. There is a stillness embodied in my art. I endeavour to construct my work to appear solid and sedentary but there is an ephemeral lightness in the physicality of my work.
I have two published books, From Felt to Fabric and Felt Forward.
I have taught and exhibited extensively in Australia and overseas and am represented in many publications.
