The paintings in this NEW EXHIBITION d i s c o d e e p were generated from many inland working expeditions in Australia.
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
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60 x 50cm Acrylic, aerosol, felt tips on wood panel. $1500
60 x 50cm Acrylic, aerosol, felt tips on wood panel. $1500
50 x 50cm Acrylic, aerosol, felt tips on wood panel. $1500
122 x 152cm Acrylic, aerosol on polyester. $5500
60 x 50cm Acrylic, aerosol, felt tips on wood panel. $1500
55 x 60cm Acrylic, aerosol, felt tips on wood panel. $1500
122 x 152cm Acrylic, aerosol on polyester. $5500
60 x 55cm Acrylic, aerosol, felt tips on wood panel. $1500
62 x 46cm Acrylic, aerosol, felt tips on wood panel. $1500
122 x 152cm Acrylic, aerosol on polyester. $5500
62 x 46cm Acrylic, aerosol, felt tips on wood panel. $1500
107 x 163cm Acrylic, aerosol on polyester. $5500
107 x 163cm Acrylic, aerosol on polyester. $5500
62 x 46cm Acrylic, aerosol, felt tips on wood panel. $1500
70 x 65cm Acrylic, aerosol, felt tips on wood panel. $1600
65 x 140cm Acrylic, aerosol, felt tips on wood panel. $2200
122 x 244cm Acrylic, aerosol on polyester. $6800
CATHERINE CASSIDY
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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 Exhibitions:
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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