CATHERINE CASSIDY
ASSOCIATED ARTIST
"From the blazing white salt crust of Lake Eyre to the Ice Age memories held in the dark glacial ponds of Central Tasmania, this country is marked by its ability to carry and display the fractured memories of water.
They are in the traces and patterns in dry creek beds and claypans, in rivers that are sometimes visible, sometime fugitive, flowing in secret passages deep underground, in ephemeral lakes marked on maps by dotted lines as if wary of confirming their intermittent existence.
My concerns as an artist are to find ways into this topsy-turvy world, this abbreviated and often interrupted flow of energy."
Catherine Cassidy July 2021
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“ Cassidy is concerned simultaneously with the intimate and panoramic aspects of the landscape.
Her ‘ perspectives’ are not those of the established Western canon but rather constantly changing as she moves through the landscape.
This results in images in which multiple viewpoints are the norm and natural motifs are aesthetically and emotionally analysed, synthesized and sometimes broken down to the extent that their original identity is purposefully dismantled. All of this is clothed in the veils of memory that are integral to Cassidy’s associative approach to her art.
She filters her reactions to, and experience of place, both in front of the motif and later in the studio.
Singular identity is not her aesthetic or conceptual concern but rather she is interested in how objects in the landscape itself are in a constant state of becoming and in this state evoke each other and other elements of the landscape. For her a tree may well be a tree but it holds within itself concurrent possibilities for other visual readings.
The constant presence of this innate ambiguity imbues a finely-tuned aesthetic tension into Cassidy’s images.”
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Peter Haynes Art Critic Canberra Times March 2021
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Education:
2010 Master of Fine Art Painting, National Art School Sydney.
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Selected Recent Solo Exhibitions:
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2021 L O V E B O M B Grainger Gallery Canberra
2020 Clouds and Stones and Stars Michael Reid Gallery Murrurundi
2020 Going Down South WorkLife Organisation Kiama
2019 Little Big World AK Bellinger Gallery @project90gallery Sydney
2019 Plastique Dungog Contemporary Dungog
2017 Miao Miao Art2Muse Gallery Sydney
2016 SuperNatural Art2Muse Gallery Sydney
2016 Deep Field Crawford Gallery Sydney
2015 Underneath a Plain Thing Art2Muse Gallery Sydney
2014 Calling Chapter House Gallery Melbourne
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Selected Group Exhibtions:
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2021 Selected Artists Studio Gallery Melbourne
2020 Country Meets Town Michael Reid Gallery Murrurundi / Woollahra
2019 Modern Love AK Bellinger Gallery Inverell
2017 New Works Catherine Cassidy and Louise Tuckwell Walcha Gallery Walcha
2017 Subito Presto2 Progress Gallery Paris
2017 At Bull Bay Bruny Island Residency Artists Despard Gallery Hobart
2015 The Kangaroos Visit Galeria Giulia Rome
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Selected Finalist Art Prizes:
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2019/18/17/16/15/10 Paddington Art Prize for Landscape Sydney
2015/14/ Art and The Land Kogarah Art Prize Kogarah Cultural Centre
2014 National Works on Paper Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
2014/12 Mosman Art Prize Mosman Art Gallery
2010/09 NSW Parliament House Plein-Air Painting Prize Parliament House Sydney
2007/06/05/01 Southern Exposure Hazelhurst Regional Gallery Gymea
2006/04/00 Portia Geach Portrait Award S.H.Ervin Gallery Sydney
1999 Dobell Drawing Prize Art Gallery of New South Wales
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Awards, Acquisitions:
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2017/16 The Artist Retreat Prize Paddington Art Prize
2014 NWOP Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery Permanent Collection