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Catherine O'Donnell
Born 1961, Quirindi, NSW, Studied BFA, UWS, 2005(Awarded Deans Medal), Diploma FA 2003. Since 2005 she has exhibited regularly in solo and group shows within Australia and internationally. Winning the 2009 Albury Art Prize, International Travelling Scholarship, Blacktown Art Prize and Sydney, City of Villages as well as numerous commendations. Highlights include The Kedumba Drawing Award, Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, Hazelhurst Art on Paper, SCAP and JADA. Artist Residencies include Blacktown Art Centre, Casual Powerhouse and Scuola International di Grafica (Italy) 2010. Catherine is currently represented by Boutwell Draper Gallery Sydney and New York Drawing Centre New York City.
No Right Turn Artist Statement
For me drawing is a way to know a place, it has resonance. The act of drawing is an intimate, temporal investigation with each mark generated by the one before.
Drawing enables me to combine my interest in light and shadow, geometry and the commonly overlooked urban environment. It also allows me to explore the compositional potential and underlying symmetry of these urban streetscapes, using artificial light sources or strong directional sunlight to animate the buildings, allowing them to reveal their own story.
As in nature we find exquisite beauty, I aim to find transcendental beauty in the urban landscape, inviting the viewer to revisit these places and view them with fresh eyes, to look beyond the mundane and banal.
The realism in my work is not intended to be simply a reproduction of the visible, as I am interested in more than merely mimetic representation per se. Rather, image and imagination, representation and aesthetic construction are all important parts of my final images.
Artist CV
Drawing enables me to combine my interest in light and shadow, geometry and the commonly overlooked urban environment. It also allows me to explore the compositional potential and underlying symmetry of these urban streetscapes, using artificial light sources or strong directional sunlight to animate the buildings, allowing them to reveal their own story.
As in nature we find exquisite beauty, I aim to find transcendental beauty in the urban landscape, inviting the viewer to revisit these places and view them with fresh eyes, to look beyond the mundane and banal.
The realism in my work is not intended to be simply a reproduction of the visible, as I am interested in more than merely mimetic representation per se. Rather, image and imagination, representation and aesthetic construction are all important parts of my final images.
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