Exhibition: Catherine Morland
Catherine Morland
Fugitive Moments
July – September 2008
Outpatients Hall, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, West Smithfield
Vital Arts presents new work from Catherine Morland’s ongoing series of drawings using smoke on glass, in which the artist investigates our engagement with and perception of the world around us. The unstable, temporary nature of the smoke alludes to the instability of vision and memory retrieval.
Morland, who is interested in the play between states of perception, says:
‘In a time of increasingly sophisticated visual experience I constantly go back to outmoded technologies used in the past to create illusions of reality … in order to question whether it is still possible to confound the senses through the simplest and most ephemeral of means.’
Catherine Morland lives and works in London. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2003, she has exhibited widely across London, with shows including the 2007 Jerwood Drawing Prize, Kaleidoscope at Whitechapel Gallery in 2006, and a two person show at Rokeby Gallery in 2006. In 2005 her work featured in the Platform for Art programme and Art Futures at Bloomberg Space. This October her work will be shown at the Pump House Gallery in Smoke, curated by Sally O’Reilly.
