I make work in response to sites of architectural interest, exploring the sensory experience of architecture through drawing. I am interested in seeking out the hidden, forgotten or reimagined aspects of architectural sites, alive with human traces, narratives and histories. Inspired by experience, memory and imagination, I enrich my enquiry with wider contextual research.
Recent enquiry has been focused on architectural materials, questioning what the sensory experience of drawing and architecture may reveal about a place. Working employs a rhythmic, repetitive approach, examining how translucent paper surfaces and marks interact with light, often working with video.
Recent works comprise drawings and installations of drawings on translucent papers that are activated by light.
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Exhibitions
2018 Forms Assembled in the Light: The KPP Prize for Art, Architecture + Design, Sunny Bank Mills Gallery, Leeds
2016 Resonances Retold, York Art Gallery, York
2016 See:Saw, York St John University, York
2015 Relish, The New School House Gallery, York
2015 Goddards Reimagined, National Trust at Goddards, York
2013 New Glue, Artemis Project Space, York
Projects, Residency
2016 York Art Gallery, York
2014 National Trust at Goddards, York
Projects, Studio
2018 Skin
2018 Design to Decay
2017 The Uncanny Silence
2013 Waiting
2013 Repetition, Rhythm, Ritual
Projects, Creative Producer
2016 Illuminating York at York St John University
Projects, Documentation
2016 Vespertine #16, York
2016 Illuminating York at York St John University
2015 York Minster Revealed, Community Engagement Team
Projects, Writing
2016 a-n Blog: Making Sense of Making, inc York Art Gallery Project
2015 Handling Histories: Catherine Bertola at the Brontë Parsonage Museum (2011)
Publications
2018 Artist Directory, Aesthetica Magazine, October/November
Education
2016 York St John University, BA (Hons) Fine Art, Class I
2016 Vice Chancellor’s Faculty of Arts Medal
2016 Fine Art Programme Prize