Archive 2011-12
Catherine Bertola
- Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
- Start: Wed, 02 May 2012 10:00:00 BST
- End: Wed, 02 May 2012 10:00:00 BST
My work involves creating installations, objects and drawings that respond to particular sites, collections and historic contexts. Underpinning the work is a desire to look beyond the surface of objects and buildings, to uncover forgotten and invisible histories of places and people, as a way of reframing and considering the past. Often drawing on the historic role of women in society, craft production and labour.
Catherine Bertola was born in Rugby in 1976; she studied Fine Art at Newcastle University, and currently lives and works in Gateshead, UK. She has been creating site-specific installations for over ten years in a variety of different places and contexts both nationally and internationally. She has worked on a number of commissions and exhibitions with organisations and institutions such as Museum of Arts and Design (New York, USA), Kunsthalle zu Kiel (Kiel, Germany), Whitworth Art Gallery (Manchester, UK), Oriel Davies (Newtown, UK), National Museum Wales (Cardiff, UK), V&A (London, UK), Artium (Vitoria Gastiez, Spain), Cornerhouse (Manchester, UK), The Government Art Collection (UK), Millennium Gallery (Sheffield, UK), The National Trust and Vital Arts (London, UK).
She has work in several public and private collections and is represented by Workplace Gallery, Gateshead and M+R Fricke, Berlin.
Image: Unseen by all but me alone 2009 Gold thread and fixings Courtesy the artist, Workplace Gallery and Galerie M+R Fricke